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Unconscious consumption of our sources together with increasing human population and industrialization at the present time has increased the pressure of people on nature. Deterioration of natural balance and consequently emerging environmental problems entail people to re-take up life styles and consumption habits and make controlling regulations towards environment. In this context, ecological footprint is an environmental educational tool which is quite influent for providing individuals with sustainable consumer identity by demonstrating the level of pressure of people on nature. Based on such information, the purpose of the study is to investigate the determination of consciousness levels of Libyan university students on ecological footprint and sustainable life. The universe of the study consists of university students studying in Libya in 2016-2017 academic year. The research exemplary consists of 246 female, 254 male, totally 500 students studying in the same academic year. The data of research was collected from the students studying in 2015-2016 academic year in Libyan universities, when they were suitable. The researcher was present with the university students while filling data collection tools and made any clarification that would be necessary. The data was analysed by using SPSS-20 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) package program. In analysing the data and investigating the statistics T test, Anova, Tukey test, Frequency test, Descriptive test techniques were used. Based on the results obtained from the research, it was found that consciousness levels of Libyan university students on ecological footprint and sustainable life is at intermediate level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study was to investigate and evaluate the ecological footprint awareness levels of science and technology teacher candidates. This research was performed in 361 science and technology teacher candidates, who were in Science Education Department of Gazi Education Faculty of Gazi University in the spring semester of 2013-2014. The research was carried out using a crosssectional survey model. The variables of this research were gender and grade levels. The data were collected using the Ecological Footprint Awareness Scale. Descriptive statistic techniques, independent samples t-test, and one-way ANOVA were used for data analysis. The results obtained from this study showed that science and technology teacher candidates have the largest footprint in food subscale, and the smallest footprint in energy subscale. The ecological footprint awareness levels of female science and technology teacher candidates were found significantly higher than those of male science and technology teacher candidates. The ecological footprint awareness of science and technology teacher candidates was observed significantly higher than that of freshmen science and technology teacher candidates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to investigate effect of ecological footprint education, in which 5E learning cycle model is used, in reducing primary school students' ecological footprints. The working group of the study is composed of 124 primary school students studying in 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th classes. In this study, 5E learning model is used in teaching a course in order to increase the participating students' knowledge about ecological footprints and to calculate ecological footprints. Experimental method is used in this study. In data analysis, the paired samples t-test is used in for relevant samplings. The findings gathered indicate that ecological footprints of the participating students to the study decreased at the end of the study. It is determined that the mean of primary students' ecological footprints differ from meaningfully according to level of the class and sex. Prospective solution offers are developed by handling the prospective effects of conclusions of the study on sustainable life and environmental education and conclusions' importance in terms of learning and developing learning programmes with a critical point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study on ways of reducing ecological footprints in Turkey. The study uses ecological footprint calculating web-based questionnaire involving students on a computer environment which were converted to power point presentation by preservice science teachers and into DVD and compact disk (CD) format. The study revealed that data gathered from students were categorized according to food, transportation, energy, and water consumption and is advised to consume own resources.

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of ecological footprint applications used as a tool of environmental education on changing the awareness, attitudes and behaviours of prospective science and technology teachers towards environment and sustainable life. The research was applied on 49 third grade prospective science and technology teachers studying in Gazi University Faculty of Education Science Education Program. In the research, "Environmental Education Survey" was used as data collection tool. In the analysis of statistical data, correlation method and paired samples t-Test were used. It was seen that awareness, attitude and behaviour points of the prospective science and technology teachers rose on the phase of post-test. That result shows that applying ecological footprint is an environmental education tool effective in changing the awareness, attitudes and behaviours of the prospective science and technology teachers towards environment and sustainable life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]