PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ ANTHROPOCENTRIC, BIOCENTRIC, AND ECOCENTRIC ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS APPROACHES

Hikmet Surmeli, Mehpare Saka

Abstract: Environmental ethics have become more important as environmental problems have become more serious. It is believed that environmental problems can be ameliorated by the application of environmental ethics. With this kind of ethics, individuals obtain some important responsibility such as understanding environmental consequences of their consumption and conserving natural resources and also protecting the world for future generations. There are three basic approaches to environmental ethics: anthropocentrism, egocentrism, and biocentrism. The purpose of this study is to investigate preserves teachers environmental ethics approaches. A total of 311 preserves teachers from different departments in the Education Faculty of a university participated in the study during the 2012-2013 academic year. An Environmental Ethics Scale developed by the researchers was used to gather the data, which were analyzed quantitatively by parametric and non-parametric methods. Results of the study show that the preserves teachers’ had strong biocentrism and eccentric approaches, and their approaches did not depend on gender or department in the university.

Key words: Environmental Ethics, Environmental Ethics Approaches, Preserves Teachers

总  结：本研究介绍的方法对职前教师环境伦理的考虑。结果显示他们的方法是不同的，与其他不同的是，他们的部门，他们的研究领域，是不是确定影响他们的环境伦理在线。研究设计：金枪鱼在土耳其的人口结果表明，18岁的独立变量，如性别和教育并没有影响环境的世界观。在其他的手，显示更多受过教育的受访者的环境）承诺的是受过教育的人比美国少。本研究结果还表明，性别的影响是不确定的职前教师在线环境伦理学的方法。然而，其他研究人员在不同的环境中的实验研究关怀。这一发现可能会为更多的问题比女性表达他们的关注与环境寻找更多关于环境问题的优化解。在其他的手，但在表现研究另一个研究表明，得分比女性高的道德和情感疾病而言是自然保护。

本研究的结果表明，职前教师有较强的生命和环境伦理学的方法是，根据这些值没有差异，他们的研究领域。一些类似以前的研究结果得到了量表。然而，似乎是幼儿园职前教师有更多的往往比其他职前教师的角度。在本研究中的参与者谁得分高的得分较低的生命意义。

出处：《INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ACADEMIC RESEARCH》No. 5. September, 2013