Environment Education and Architecture

OpenAlex İngilizce

For a sustainable environment, the notion of educatingthe children from the early years regarding the environment is becoming morecommonplace. Therefore the subject of environment in the current educationsystem shall be reviewed. Contrary to popular belief, environment do not onlyconsist the natural formations and the importance of built environment and itsrelation to ecological balance is not fully understood. For this reason, theaim is to improve the current environment education in terms of context andgovernance and the field studies conducted for this purpose include architecturebased environment education events. For this study, the different methods forprocessing the issue of environment in lessons are reviewed and consisted 65students, 30 being the experiment group, that are in 4th grade in 2 differentschools. The quantitative and qualitative research methods are used in tandem.As the results of the study is reviewed, it is seen that the students whoparticipated to the workshop have become more knowledgeable in terms of“environment, ecology and sustainability” and are able to apply their knowledgeby constructing models. Based on these results, the studies that will beconducted in the future regarding environment education, it is recommended thata holistic approach that includes the built environment to be adopted.