Turkish Pre-Service Primary Teachers' Decisions on Various Socioscientific Issues: SEE-SEP Model-Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Karakas, Hamdi; Eyceyurt Turk, Gülseda
Titel	Turkish Pre-Service Primary Teachers' Decisions on Various Socioscientific Issues: SEE-SEP Model-Analysis
Quelle	In: Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 17 (2022) 4, S.182-208 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Karakas, Hamdi) ORCID (Eyceyurt Turk, Gülseda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1949-4270
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Thinking Skills; Decision Making; Logical Thinking; Science Teachers; Science Instruction; Social Problems; Course Content; Science and Society; Energy; Mining; Genetics; Industry; Biotechnology; Environment; Ethics; Moral Values; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Denkfähigkeit; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Science; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Kursprogramm; Energie; Abbau; Humangenetik; Industrie; Biotechnologie; Umwelt; Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Türkei
Abstract	The science curriculum in the Turkish education system includes socioscientific issues (SSI) as a context for developing students' reasoning skills, scientific thinking habits, and decision-making skills from an early age. Conducting activities on real problems with teachers and pre-service teachers based on SSI and making decisions considering different dimensions in SSI can provide a better explanation and transfer of the content dimension of the subject. It was found that SSI studies are conducted with science teachers and pre-service science teachers in Türkiye. In this study, activities with different SSIs were organized with pre-service primary teachers, and the decisions of pre-service primary teachers on various socioscientific issues were evaluated considering different dimensions (sociology/culture, environment, economy, science, ethics/morality, and policy) using the SEE-SEP model. Nine different SSI scenarios were presented to 60 pre-service primary teachers in the Central Anatolian region of Türkiye, and they were asked to make a decision in dilemma situations and justify it. It was found that hydroelectric power plants (HEPP), mining, and electric vehicles are highly favored by pre-service primary teachers, while GMOs, cloning, and the establishment of industrial zones are not highly favoured, and they are undecided about biotechnology. It is concluded that the pre-service primary teachers' decisions to support various SSI are mainly economic and scientific, while the environmental and ethical/moral dimensions lead mainly to non-support and indecision. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: https://inased.org/epasrpi/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01