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                                                                <journal-id>ssci</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Social Scientific Centered Issues</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2687-6221</issn>
                                                                                                        <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Bahattin AYDINLI</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.71249/ssci.1651097</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Science Education</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Fen Bilgisi Eğitimi</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>Fen Bilgisi Öğretmen Adaylarının Çevre Sorunlarına Karşı Ahlaki Muhakemeleri ve Bunları Etkileyen Faktörler</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>Prospective Science Teachers’ Moral Reasoning About Environmental Issues and The Factors That Affect Their Moral Reasoning on This Topic</article-title>
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                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5334-0103</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Uzel</surname>
                                    <given-names>Nurcan</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, GAZİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20250630">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>30</month>
                    <year>2025</year>
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                                        <volume>7</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>38</fpage>
                                        <lpage>60</lpage>
                                    
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20250304">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>04</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20250405">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>05</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2019, Social Scientific Centered Issues</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Social Scientific Centered Issues</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <trans-abstract xml:lang="tr"><p>Bu araştırmada fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının çevre sorunlarına karşı gösterdikleri ahlaki muhakemelerin ve bu ahlaki muhakemeleri etkileyen faktörlerin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda nitel araştırma yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu dört farklı devlet üniversitesinin 4. sınıfında okuyan 213 fen bilgisi öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının ahlaki muhakeme örüntülerini belirlemek için su sorunu ve iklim değişikliği konulu iki senaryodan yararlanılmıştır. Ayrıca Sadler (2003) tarafından geliştirilen “Moral Decision-Making Interview (MDMI)” protokolü adayların ahlaki muhakeme örüntülerini etkileyen faktörleri araştırmak için kullanılmıştır. Toplanan verilerin analizinde içerik analizinden yararlanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının su sorunu ve iklim değişikliği konulu senaryolara verdikleri cevapların daha çok çevresel olmayan ahlaki muhakemede yoğunlaştığı anlaşılmıştır. Adayların çevre konularına ekosentrik ve antroposentrik olarak yaklaşımları değerlendirildiğinde ise ekosentriğe göre oldukça yüksek oranda antroposentrik bir yaklaşımın olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca adayların ahlaki muhakemeleri üzerinde başlıca ekonomi, insan sağlığı ve geleceği, görev ve sorumluluk, çevresel değerler, dünyadaki dengeler, vb. olmak üzere 12 faktörün etkili olduğu belirlenmiştir.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>This study aims to identify prospective science teachers’ moral reasoning about environmental issues as well as the factors that affect this moral reasoning. The qualitative research method was used to achieve this goal. The study group was made up of 213 prospective science teachers studying the 4th year of university at four different state universities. Two scenarios, about the water scarcity problem and climate change, were used to ascertain the moral reasoning patterns of the trainee teachers. The “Moral Decision-Making Interview (MDMI)” protocol developed by Sadler (2003) was used to look into the factors that affect the moral reasoning patterns of the participants. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 14 prospective teachers, 7 males and 7 females. Content analysis was used for the analysis of the data collected. The results of the study showed that the prospective science teachers’ answers to the scenarios about the water scarcity problem and climate change were more centred around non-environmental moral reasoning. When comparing the participants’ approach by how ecocentric or anthropocentric they were, we identified that the anthropocentric approach was more common. We also identified 12 factors that had an impact on the participants’ moral reasoning, most importantly the economy, human health and future, duty and responsibility, environmental values, global power balances etc.</p></abstract>
                                                                        
                        
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                                                    <kwd>Environmental ethics</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> moral reasoning</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> environmental issues</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> ecocentric</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> anthropocentric</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> climate change</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Çevre etiği</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> ahlaki muhakeme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> çevre sorunları</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> ekosentrik</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> antroposentrik</kwd>
                                                    <kwd> iklim değişikliği</kwd>
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