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Asia-Pacific
Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 7, Issue 2, Article
7 (Dec., 2006) Haluk ÖZMEN & Orhan KARAMUSTAFAOĞLU Environmental consciousness and education relationship: Determination of how environment-based concepts are placed in Turkish science curricula
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Turkey has a central educational system. In this system, all of the programs are designed by the Ministry of National Education and distributed to the implementing institutions. As a part of this system, the textbooks written by different writers should be approved by the commission called Talim Terbiye Kurulu and these approved books are chosen as classroom textbooks. Based on this, in this study, science, physics, chemistry and biology textbooks in all levels were examined by document analysis method. Document analysis method is based on the examination of the written sources in respect of some determined criteria (Yin, 1994). In this study, ten different textbooks used in public schools were examined and environment-based concepts in these books were determined. Textbooks at all levels were examined and the topics relating to environment were tried to be determined during the analyzing process.
