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The 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Nevşehir, Turkey, 28 August - 01 September 2023, pp.610
This study aims to reveal preschool teacher candidates’ preconceptions of climate change and thoughts on how climate change can be handled with early years children. The purpose of the research is exploratory, so the qualitative research method was employed, and the study design was basic qualitative research design. A homogeneous sampling strategy was used when determining the study group, as the goal was to work with preschool teacher candidates volunteering as trainers at the CABACAM, which provides free preschool education to children of economically and socioculturally disadvantaged families. Participants consist of twenty-four teacher candidates continuing their preschool undergraduate education while volunteering at CABACAM. Data were collected through individual interviews with preschool teacher candidates using semi-structured interview forms. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed using content analysis techniques.