Students' cognitive awareness about the reasons of environmental problems

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 378-381

  Keskin, Sevgi Coşkun ^a   Özcan, Gökçen ^b   Topsakal, Ünsal Umdu ^c   Kaplan, Aysun Öztuna ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environmental education socio scientific issues story completion globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891615630     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.28.03.765     Document Type: Article

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