摘要：It is aimed at the evaluation of the environment knowledge of teacher candidates of social studies from different variants in this survey. For this purpose, it is applied to 1587 teacher candidates of Social Studies Departments in Faculties of Education at 6 universities in different regions of Turkey. At the end of this survey, it is realized that these teacher candidates have average level of the environment knowledge. This research show that their level of the environment knowledge doesn’t change to their gender, environmental education courses and educational background of their parents so much, however; it changes to their interest in environment and the frequency of their existence in natural areas. As a consequence of this survey, it is expected that the courses on the environment knowledge at universities attaching students’ interest and being suitable for application in natural areas will strengthen their environment knowledge level.
关键词：Social studies;teacher candidate of social studies;environmental knowlede
