STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences
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2019
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
STEM education is based on interrelated and holistic teaching of the disciplines of science,technology, engineering and mathematics. It is important to ensure that STEM education doesnot address a certain category of society only but that it is also applied to disadvantagedsegments of society. The aim of the present study is to identify the opinions of socioeconomically disadvantaged students and their teachers about STEM education experience. Thestudy was planned according to the case study model. The participants of the research consistedof a teacher and 34 Grade-8 students studying in a regional boarding school (RBS) in a northernprovince of Turkey. In the study, a unit (Living Beings and Life) within the scope of 8th gradescience course was planned in accordance with STEM education. The data of the study werecollected through student diaries and the field notes taken by the teacher. The data obtainedfrom student diaries were subjected to content analysis, and the field notes were analysed withdescriptive analysis. It was determined that the RBS students evaluated STEM-focusedactivities and the related applications in terms of their contributions to their learning process,21st-century skills, their perceptions about STEM disciplines and the development of theircareer awareness on STEM fields. The results obtained from the teachers’ field notes showedthat the students’ participation and group work skills increased, that the students had fun andbecame motivated in the course, and that they experienced an improvement in their skills ofassociating what they learned with their daily life, solving problems and designing and in theirengineering awareness.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları
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Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry
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10
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