The Relation Between Teachers' Attitudes Towards Renewable Energy Sources and Critical Thinking Dispositions

Abstract

Renewable energy is defined as the energy source that can exist in a short time within the evolution of nature itself. These sources have an important place for the world and our country since they are renewable, have minimum impact on environment, their operating and maintenance costs are low, they are national and supply reliable energy (Haskok, 2005). The use Abstract. In this research, it was aimed to explore the relation between attitude towards renewable energy sources and critical thinking disposition. For this purpose, relational survey model was used in the research. The research group consisted of 468 prospective teachers studying in faculty of education in a public university in the fall semester of 2018-2019 academic year. Renewable Energy Sources Attitude Scale in order to evaluate prospective teachers' attitudes towards renewable energy sources, and Critical Thinking Disposition Scale for evaluating critical thinking dispositions were used. In the research, the relation between the data set for attitude towards renewable energy sources comprising of variables which are application request, importance of education, country interest, environmental awareness and investments and the data set for critical thinking disposition comprising of variables which are metacognition, flexibility, systematicity, tenacity-patience, open-mindedness by the canonical analysis. As a result of the canonical correlation analysis, a significant relation was found between the attitudes towards renewable energy sources and the critical thinking dispositions and it was found that the common variance shared between the data sets was 22.23%.

Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes

“…Saka (2016) found out that CT dispositions significantly predicted environmental ethics approaches in her study which aimed to investigate the effects of CT dispositions on environmental ethics approaches. Also, Güven and Çakır (2019) found a significant relationship between the students' attitudes towards renewable energy sources and CT dispositions. There are also other studies which concluded that CT can affect individuals' thoughts, decisions, and attitudes towards renewable energy sources (Lee, 2016;Opitz, 2016;Sakschewski et al, 2014).…”

“…Therefore, this makes CT a necessary step to preserve environmental sustainability (Puspitasari et al, 2016;Amin et al, 2020). Indeed, previous literature emphasizes attitudes towards renewable energy sources are influenced by CT dispositions of individuals (Lee, 2016;Opitz, 2016;Sakschewski et al, 2014;Güven & Çakır, 2019). Also, some previous studies indicate that CT teaching improves not only students' CT skills or dispositions but also their environmental attitudes (Hofreiter et al, 2007, Orhan, 2021Muhsilin et al, 2019;Mengi Us, 2019).…”

“…Therefore, previous literature shows a positive relationship between CT and environmental attitudes. Although there are studies investigating the relationship between the attitudes towards renewable energy sources and CT dispositions (Lee, 2016;Opitz, 2016;Sakschewski et al, 2014;Güven & Çakır, 2019), very few studies were encountered aiming to investigate the relationship between students' general environmental attitudes and CT dispositions in the literature. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate if high school students' CT dispositions are a significant predictor of their environmental attitudes.…”

Understanding Indonesian history, interest in learning history and national insight with nationalism attitude

“…One form of education to answer this challenge is the implementation of Indonesian history subject at the high school level. History is a subject that instills knowledge [9,10], attitudes, values regarding the process of change and development of Indonesian society from the past to the present [11]. Learning history in schools needs to be carried out to build a scientific perspective with a time perspective, shared memory, and awareness of the core values of the nation to shape identity [12].…”

Relationship Between the Understanding of Indonesian History and the Nationalism Attitude of State Senior High School Students

“…The results of observations in schools as a place of research are still often encountered a number of problems associated with the low attitudes of students' nationalism (Kushaev, 2009). The low attitude of nationalism of students in schools, such as when carrying out ceremonies, many students still talk to their fellow students, and were not serious while singing Indonesian national anthem (Guven, 2019). Students should take part in the ceremony well and solemnly for their own encouragement, as the effect of understanding how the struggle of the heroes seized the Indonesian people from the invaders.…”