Bu çalışmanın amacı, okul öncesi eğitimi alan öğretmen adaylarının sürdürülebilir yaşama yönelik farkındalıklarının belirlenmesinde çevre eğitimi aracı olarak kullanılan ekolojik ayak izi uygulamalarının etkisini incelemektir Yapılan analizlerden elde edilen sonuçlar şunlardır: Öğretmen adaylarının sürdürülebilir yaşama yönelik farkındalık puanlarının hesabı ve ekolojik ayak izi hesaplamalarının uygulaması sonucunda,  Türkiye’nin ekolojik ayak izi raporunda ortaya çıkan ortalama ekolojik ayak izinin öğretmen adaylarının testleri sonucu ortaya çıkan ekolojik ayak izinden daha düşük olduğu görülmüştür. Yani çevreye bıraktıkları iz Türk toplumuna göre daha küçüktür. Ekolojik ayak izi hesaplamaları sonucunda öğretmen adaylarının ekolojik ayak izine etkiyi en çok mallar ve hizmetler alanı yaparken en az seyahat alanının katkıda bulunduğu görülmüştür. Okul öncesi kız öğretmen adaylarının erkek öğretmen adaylarına göre ekolojik ayak izleri daha küçüktür.

Bu nedenle çevre eğitimi ders programlarının ve dersin işlenişi gözden geçirilmelidir önerisinde bulunulmuştur. Ayrıca okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının ekolojik ayak izleri erkek adaylara göre daha küçük olduğu, erkek öğrencilere yönelik etkinliklere çevre eğitiminde daha çok yer verilmesi gerekliği önerisinde bulunulmuştur.

Writing for academic purposes is a tricky issue, especially for researchers who are eager to be recognized by larger academic discourse communites through their publications. Indeed, writing for prestigious databases and especially in English has been the basic concern of researchers with EFL background. However, in the last thirty years, the leading figures in ESP and EAP realms have developed pedagogical writing models and emphasized the critical role of genre analysis as road map in academic writing for researchers, with the very term of John Swales, who are looking for creating research space in local and international academic platforms. Thus, driven from these inspiring models in the literature, which are basicly prolific outcomes of genre based writing pedagogy, I, as a researcher, eager to cover all these pragmatic tools in a way that reseachers and, especially, novice researchers would easily catch the essence of writing for academic discourses in terms of positioning themselves in these discourses by synthesizing relevant parts of my master thesis and dissertation. Thus, as a motivational, inspring and reader friendly guide, Genre Analysis Based Pedagogy: Writing for Academic Discourses firstly explains genre as a term within paradigms and the critical position of genre analysis based writing pedagogy and genre analysis as methodology. Followingly, the models specifically put by ESP and EAP experts and practitioners are provided briefly and clearly for researchers in such a way that will guide them in rhetorically and lexico-grammatically structuring of their academic texts, or academic genres, section by section and holistically in English. Thus, through this self-help book, researchers can organize their academic genres with a professional academic tone in English, which will ease, as Hyland pointed out, contextualizing their genres into wider academic contexts.

It is one of the complaints of the schoolmaster that the public does not defer to his professional opinion as completely as it does to that of practitioners in other professions. At first sight it might seem as though this indicated a defect either in the public or in the profession; and yet a wider view of the situation would suggest that such a conclusion is not a necessary one. The relations of education to the public are different from those of any other professional work. Education is a public business with us, in a sense that the protection and restoration of personal health or legal rights are not. To an extent characteristic of no other institution, save that of the state itself, the school has power to modify the social order. And under our political system, it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as, indeed, he has a vote in the determination of political affairs. If this be true, education is primarily a public business, and only secondarily a specialized vocation. The layman, then, will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools.

The book, which started its journey as a research article but later turned into a book, examines the educational problems experienced in the Music Departments of Fine Arts High Schools in Turkey through the views of the music teachers working in this school in a provincial city and discusses the results with a generalizable approach, mainly from the perspective of music teaching. Although Fine Arts High Schools have been extensively studied in the music education literature, studies focused on the problems experienced in these schools are quite limited. The data of the study were obtained from a single study group instead of a sample selected from the population. Some problems are strongly related to the socio-cultural and socio-economic variables surrounding the school. These two justifications should be interpreted as the results are not generalizable. However, it should be emphasized that some of the results obtained in this study regarding common and non-intervening elements for all Fine Arts High Schools in Turkey such as the criteria for appointment of administrators, teacher-student selection method, curriculums, and textbooks may be generalizable. In this context, the study is considered important in terms of drawing attention to the current problems experienced in these schools and providing results that will help to make a comparison between the school where the research was conducted and other Fine Arts High Schools.