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The general aim of this research is to determine and analyze the opinions of pre-school teachers in Genç province of Bingöl on the educational activities aimed at educating preschool children about environmental awareness. The sample of the research is composed of 17 pre-school teachers who provide education within the Ministry of National Education during the academic year of 2017-2018 in Genç Province. A semi-structured interview form consisting of seven open-ended interview questions based on expert opinions was used to collect data. The data collected were analyzed by descriptive analysis method which used in qualitative research. For this purpose, phenomenological study method is used as qualitative research methods. According to the findings of the study, it was determined that the teachers mostly focus on the Turkish language field and then on the environment topic within the scope of science and nature activities and they emphasize the question and answer and experiment methods in their practice. Teachers were found to be inadequate in the pre-school education program in terms of achievements and indicators for environmental awareness building, and they mostly used the observation techniques to assess the persistence of environmental awareness in children. The biggest problem faced in establishing environmental awareness was the inability to cooperate with the family, and as a solution, the school was determined to plan general family participation activities. Keywords: Environment, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Education, Preschool Education Programme

The aim of this study is to examine the effective citizenship competencies of prospective teachers in terms of various variables. The study is a descriptive study and survey model is used in this context. The study group of the study consists of undergraduate students attending the last year of education faculty and students who continue pedagogical formation education in the 2018-2019 academic year at Inonu University, Adıyaman University and Fırat University. In this context, 584 pedagogical formation students and 293 last year students of education faculties were reached. Effective Citizenship Competence Scale developed by Sağlam (2011) was used to collect quantitative data. This scale is a 5 choices likert type scale consisting of a total of 23 items and includes two sub-dimensions. The first 12 items measure the "Citizenship Values" sub-dimension and the remaining 11 items measure the "Knowledge and Skills of the Citizenship "sub-dimension. Package program was used to analyse the data obtained from prospective teachers. Frequency (f), percentage (%), t test and One-way ANOVA tests were applied. Comments were made based on the findings of the study. As a result of the analyses, it was differentiated in favour of men according to the gender variable in the "Citizenship Knowledge and Skill" sub-dimension of the mean scores obtained from the prospective teachers' effective citizenship competence scale. As a result of the analyses, it was seen that the average scores of the prospective teachers' scores on effective citizenship competence scale differed in favour of graduated students according to their graduation status in the "Citizenship Knowledge and Skills" sub-dimension. There was no significant difference for the other independent variables of the study Keywords: Effective Citizenship, Citizenship Qualifications, Citizenship Knowledge, Pedagogic Formation, Teacher Candidates