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.

The Herbart school adheres to this view of education, and has transferred its spirit and method to the schools. The Herbartians have the hardihood, in this age of moral skeptics, to believe not only in moral example but also in moral teaching. (By moral skeptics we mean those who believe in morals but not in moral instruction.) They seek first of all historical materials of the richest moral content, in vivid personification, upon which to nourish the moral spirit of children. If properly treated, this subject matter will soon win the children by its power over feeling and judgment. With Crusoe the child goes through every hardship and success; with Abraham he lives in tents, seeks pastures for his flocks, and generously marches out to the rescue of his kinsmen. He should not read Caesar with a slow and toilsome drag (parsing and construing) that would render a bright boy stupid. If he goes with Caesar at all, he must build an agger, fight battles, construct bridges, and approve or condemn Caesar’s acts. But we doubt the moral value of Caesar’s Gallic wars. By reading Plutarch we may see that the Latins and Greeks, before the days of their degeneracy, nourished their rising youth upon the traditions of their ancestry. The education produced a tough and sinewy brood of moral qualities.

The nature of Education is determined by the nature of mind—that it can develop whatever it really is only by its own activity. Mind is in itself free; but if it does not actualize this possibility, it is in no true sense free, either for itself or for another. Education is the influencing of man by man, and it has for its end to lead him to actualize himself through his own efforts. The attainment of perfect manhood as the actualization of the Freedom necessary to mind constitutes the nat

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