Science teachers' perceptions of the elementary science and technology curriculum

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Matematik ve Fen Bilimleri Eğitimi Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2011

Öğrenci: ELİF ECE ADAL

Danışman: JALE ÇAKIROĞLU

Özet:

The aim of this study is to reveal the teachers‟ perceptions of the Elementary Science and Technology curriculum in 6th, 7th and 8th grade levels and the level of consistency of these perceptions with the content of the curriculum. In order to achieve this aim, an exploratory qualitative research was operated through indepth interviews with 9 science and technology teachers. In this study, in order to directly deal with ego-threat, a relatively new technique, which is named game activity, was developed by the researcher as the data gathering tool, inspired by “game therapy.” The data gathered was analyzed using content analysis. The result of this study can be summarized as, although the teachers spend an effort to implement the curriculum, since they did not examine the curriculum closely, their efforts go in vain. The only real novelty that the new curriculum is able to incorporate into the classroom environment is that learning activities are given more time in the class than they were in the past. Still, it is seen that the aim of educating students as scientifically and technologically literate person was not taken into consideration and students are not put at the center during these activities.