What are the most important environmental problems according to the second grade primary school students?

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1605-1609

  Yurttaş, Gülfem Dilek ^a   Sülün, Yusuf ^a  

^a MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environmental awareness; environmental education; environmental problems; sustainable development; the eight grades at primary school

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957708027     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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