How Fit for Europe Are Turkish College Youths? Living Conditions, Environmental Consciousness and Education of Agriculture Students in A Comparison Between the Sexes

Abstract

This study analyses the living conditions and environmental consciousness and education of students studying agriculture in a comparison between the sexes, in order to determine how fit the Turkish college youths are for Europe with regard to domains such as 'housing situation', 'sourcing of the studies', 'educational background', and 'parental background' of the students. The study also examines students environmental education in high school, college and outside the school environment; their participation in conferences, symposiums and activities as such; memberships of environmental foundations and participation of the activities of these foundations, and their interest in environmental problems in relation to students improvement of environmental consciousness and education. For this reason, the questionnaire has been randomly applied to 276 students in total out of 917 students who study at Tekirdag Agricultural Faculty of Namik Kemal University. The participants consist of 176 males and 100 females.