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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │Issue 6 │2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.804478 EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION APPLICATION ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES OF PROSPECTIVE PRESERVICE PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS Nezahat Kandemir1i, Serpil Pekdoğan2, Şevket Kandemir3 Assoc. Prof. Dr., Amasya University, Turkey 1 Assist. Prof. Dr., Hitit University, Turkey 2 Prof. Dr., Amasya University, Turkey 3 Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Activity Based Environment Education Program on the environment motivation of prospective presevice pre-school teachers. Experimental design with pre-test and post-test control group was used in the research. 40 prospective teachers (20 of them are in experimental group, 20 in control group) attending to Pre-School Education Department in Education Faculty of Amasya University participated in this research. Activity based Environment Education was given to the prospective teachers in the experimental group three times a week for 8 weeks. The data was obtained through Motivation Scale Towards Environment developed by Pelletier et al. 1 . The data was analysed by using covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and t-test. At the end of the study, a significant difference between the motivation scores against environment of experimental and control groups was found. Results show that the Activity Based Environment Education Program has a positive effect on the environmental motivation of the experimental group. Keywords: environment education, pre-school, preservice teacher, child For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/795 Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 728