Training Turkish preschoolars to be conscious citizen environmentalists for sustainable communities

Energy Education Science and Technology Part B: Social and Educational Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-86

  Kabadayi, Abdülkadir ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conscious environmentalists; Pre service teachers' views; Recycling; Sustainable community; Turkish preschoolars; Used up batteries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861149109     PISSN: 13087711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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