ERIC Number: EJ1283768
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Publication Date: 2021
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Investigating Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Personal Teaching Efficacy and Outcome-Expectancy Beliefs Regarding Education for Sustainable Development in Turkey
Köklü Yaylaci, Hasret; Olgan, Refika
Teacher Educator, v56 n1 p4-24 2021
This study investigates teaching efficacy beliefs of Turkish early childhood preservice teachers toward education for sustainable development (ESD), as well as their personal efficacy and outcome-expectancy beliefs regarding ESD. The study also examines whether or not significant life experiences, year of undergraduate study, and taking courses regarding sustainable development influence students' ESD teaching efficacy beliefs. In the pilot study the structure of the Turkish version of the Education for Sustainable Development Teaching Beliefs Scale (EfSD-B) was explored within a sample comprised of 158 early childhood preservice teachers. Then, 541 early childhood preservice teachers participated in the main study and completed an adapted version of the EfSD-B scale. The study results revealed a moderate sense of ESD teaching efficacy with its two constructs. Further, the participants' responses did not significantly correspond with significant life experiences, taking ESD or sustainable development course, and preservice teachers' year in undergraduate study.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Young Adults, Student Characteristics, Educational Background, Early Experience, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Expectation, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey (Ankara)
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