THE INVESTIGATION OF MIGRATING 3-7 GRADE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SURROUNDINGS

The environment is a living space in which we live with confidence and meet our basic needs. When people perceive threats to survive (war, death, hunger, injustice, persecution, etc.), people move to safe areas. In this study, the attitudes of the refugee children in our country towards the environment were investigated. In the year 2016-2017 in various schools connected to the national education in Eyüp and Kü？ükk？y districts on the European side of Istanbul province, In this study, where 20 female, 20 male, and 40 refugee students at different ages who migrated and are studying 3,4,5,6,7 classes have participated, the children's perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards the environment have been examined in terms of various variables. A semi-structured questionnaire was applied to the students. In the examination of the data, content analysis method was used from qualitative research techniques. In the survey, when the demographic information of the students is examined, the majority of them live with their families, the majority are of Syrian nationality, they usually have 3 or 4 siblings, many of them know Turkish well, most of them live together and their fathers are working; the survey results show that children perceive the environment as a place where they live, they dream of a clean environment and tend not to throw away garbage and not to pollute the environment