Abstract

The aim of this project is to define the importance of 12-day ecology-based education training upon integration with nature and understanding the human-ecosystem relationship. In accordance with this purpose, there has been collected some survey data interviewing with the participants of “Lake Beysehir National Park and Ecology-based Nature Education Project around Konya”. In the qualitative investigation method-used study, 29 participants created the working group. As the data-collecting tool, 4-questioned semi-structured interview form has been used and the data collected from the interviews analysed with content analysis. At the end of the survey, it has been precipitated that it is necessary to raise natural and environmental awareness. First, there has been significant differences in terms of the point-of-view related to nature at the end of the programme, in which human-ecosystem relationship is understood in general terms and this relationship must be accepted as an inseparable whole.

Key words: Nature education, human-ecosystem relationship, Integration with nature, ecology.