Environmental Orientation for Art Teachers Education Program (EOATEP)

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of environmental orientation for the Art Education Teacher Preparation Program at Sultan Qaboos University from the point of view of student teachers participating in the program. To accomplish the objectives of the research, an analytical descriptive method was used, and a questionnaire prepared for this purpose was distributed to a sample of (106) male and female students, representing 50.2% of the total population of the study. The results showed that the student teachers’ estimates of the level of environmental orientation of the program as a whole were (moderate), with an arithmetic mean (2.9/4.00). Concerning the dimension of teachers’ practices of environmental orientation during teaching, it was (high). In contrast, the level of environmental orientation for the course content was (moderate) with a mean of (2.73/4.00). The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the estimates of student teachers for the level of environmental orientation on any of the two dimensions due to the variables (gender, cumulative degree).