DETERMINATION OF TRAINEE TEACHERS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

The aim of this study is to expose the conceptual frameworks of undergraduates who studied environmental information before about ecology and environment and determine concept misunderstandings by using word association test. The research was appealed 011 81 students studying in Necmettin Erbakan University A. K. Educational Faculty Department of Geography and Biology during 2011-2012 spring semester. In this study, it was revealed that the students mostly pointed out environmental pollution in their written statements. Another idea which gained importance secondarily is about practices leading the pollution of environment. Written notions about these two notions are close to each other in percentages. Opinions reminding environmental pollution mainly constitute the main points of students' environment sense.