THE EVALUATION OF NATURE EDUCATION TRAINING

Abstract

Within the scope of “Nature Education” project by TUBITAK Science Department, whichaims to provide a wide ecology vision and teach the language of nature to young researchassistants from different departments, master and doctorate students and scoutleader teachers;in July, five years time the Project of “Ecology-Based Nature Education around GöksuValley and Delta” was carried out. 149 people participated in this program. In the research,qualitative and quantitative research methods are used together. A form consisting of 20questionnaires and 3 open-ended questions was used and the obtained data was analyzed.Codes were created in the direction of the answers given to the open-ended questions, and theopinions of the participants were interpreted by associating the generated codes. As a resultof this research, the participants’ expectations of the nature education projects were met andachieved the result of leaving it with a vision of a wide ecology.