Environmental Consciousness among Turkish and Azeri Candidate Teachers

Abstract

One of the main aims of this study is to increase the environmental consciousness of university students while looking into whether there is a difference in their perspectives about environmentalconsciousness between the Turk and Azeri university students. There were 593 students in Ankaraand 231 in Baku. The survey used in the investigation consisted of behaviours, knowledge andattitudes. The Cronbach’s alpha value of the scale applied in Ankara is .97, while the Baku’s is .84.Differences are found in favour of Turkish students. While there is no gender difference in Azeristudents, differences found in favour of males among the group Turkish students. The consciousnessabout environment of Azeri students is about home plants while it is about to the problems seen inenvironment and conversations about these problems, the news in media about the environmentalproblems and the home pets in Turk students. Another interesting result is that knowledge and thebehaviours of Azeri students about environmental issue do not have any positive effect on theirenvironmental attitudes. To analyze the data, t test, co-relation and multiple regression are used.