TY - JOUR TI - ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN FORMAL EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING ACCORDING TO TEACHERS’ VIEWS AB - Detecting teachers’ opinions on the environmental education, which is applied in formaleducation and should be applied in lifelong learning process, generates the aim of the study. Thestudy was made with interview technique, which is one of the qualitative data collectionmethods. Interviews were made by using structured interview form with 20 teachers, who areselected by purposeful sampling method, from kindergartens, primary schools, middle schoolsand high schools in Sakarya province. The obtained data by interviews were analyzed withdescriptive analysis. According to the interviews made with teachers, the results of the researchare: 1- The most important environmental issue in Turkey is irregular urbanization 2-Municipalities are the most efficient institutions, non-governmental organizations are the mostefficient organizations and politicians are the most efficient persons in solving the environmentalissues, 3- The best environmental education can be provided by schools. 4- The applied/plannedenvironmental education is not sufficient. 5- Learning outcomes related with environmentaleducation in their own branches are insufficient. In addition to this, the outcomes are appliedpartly or never. The most preferred method is travel-observation, the second one is project andthe third one is narration in the method/ technique/activities, which are used to apply thelearning outcomes. Being not directed to learning by practicing and experience is the leadingencountered problem while practicing the learning outcomes. 6- Environmental education shouldbe applied in lifelong learning process to protect the environment that is needed throughout life. AU - SÖYLEMEZ, Hatice AU - Ekşioğlu, Subhan AU - DEMİRTAŞ, ZEYNEP PY - 2018 JO - Uluslararası Avrasya Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi VL - 9 IS - 31 SN - 2146-1961 SP - 767 EP - 791 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/311364 ER -