C AKGUL H|Esra Macaro?lu
Agricultural awareness for prospect?ve teachers
Sakarya University|Sakarya University
personal decision making participation civic cultural affairs economic productivity end goals education different disciplines individual levelif knowledge understanding agriculturallyrelated scientific technologicallybased concepts included processes required personal decisionmaking participation civic cultural affairs economic productivity called agricultural literacyagricultural awareness requires understanding basic concepts related agriculture impacts social economic life society first step agricultural literacythis research study examined 310 prospective elementary teachers understandings basic concepts related agriculture including definitiontherefore participants agricultural awareness prerequisite literacy examinedresearch participants chosen among three programs mathematics science social studies elementary education departmenta questionnaire prepared researchers interviews selected participants two ways collect datadata questionnaires analyzed statistically whereas data gathered interviews analyzed qualitativelytherefore mixed method research two techniques used analyze dataquantitative data analysis corresponds mean values participants regard programs attendthe mean difference among prospective elementary teachers different programs significant 005 leveltherefore sequence means display prospective mathematics teachers knowledgeable social studies teachers lastly prospective science teachers least amount agricultural knowledge among othersparticipants agricultural knowledge might counted basic agricultural awareness literacy moderate levelqualitative data analysis interviews displays participants reasoning resources know issuedetails qualitative analysis given paper