Mental Models which Influence the Attitudes of Science Students towards Recycling

Gonca Harman; Zeynep Aksan; Dilek Çelikler

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Mental Models which Influence the Attitudes of Science Students towards Recycling

Gonca Harman, Zeynep Aksan, Dilek Çelikler

Published in International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 4, Issue 1-2)

Received: 29 November 2014 Accepted: 3 December 2014 Published: 19 January 2015

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the mental models which influence the attitudes towards recycling of students attending the Department of Science Teaching. 31 first-year university students who are enrolling in the department of science education participated in the study. Based on the study results, it was determined that only a limited number of mental models influenced the students’ attitudes towards recycling. It was also determined that the students’ mental models focused on 8 categories, which were the “benefits of recycling,” the “sorting of wastes at their source,” the “promotion of recycling,” the “use of different recycling containers for different types of wastes,” “recyclable wastes,” “recycling facilities,” the “recycling process” and the “logo of recycling”.

Published in	International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 4, Issue 1-2) This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy and Recycling for Sustainable Development
DOI	10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2015040102.12
Page(s)	6-11
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Recycling, Mental Models, Drawing, Science Students

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Gonca Harman, Zeynep Aksan, Dilek Çelikler. Mental Models which Influence the Attitudes of Science Students towards Recycling. Int J Sustain Green Energy. 2015;4(1-2):6-11. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2015040102.12

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Gonca Harman

Department of Elementary Science Education, Faculty of Education, Ondokuz May?s University, Samsun, Turkey
Zeynep Aksan

Department of Elementary Science Education, Faculty of Education, Ondokuz May?s University, Samsun, Turkey
Dilek Çelikler

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