Special Education Teachers' Attitudes towards the Environment

The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of special education teacher candidates, who have great responsibilities in terms of environmental education, towards the environment and to compare these attitudes according to various variables. For this purpose, a 4-point Likert-type Environmental Attitude Scale consisting of 35 items was used as a data collection tool. The study group of the research consists of 120 special education teacher candidates. Whether the prospective teachers' attitudes towards the environment show a significant difference in terms of the independent variables of the research was investigated using the t-test for bivariate features and the ANOVA test for features with more than two. The results of the research show that the attitudes of teacher candidates towards the environment increase as age and class level increase, but there is no statistically significant difference between teacher candidates in terms of these variables.