Akdeniz Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Yazarlar: Berrin AKMAN, Merve GANGAL, Servet KARDEŞ

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Early Childhood Education,Science Education,Science Education Center

Özet: With developing technology and reshaped the information age, the value of science in social structure increases day by day. Science ranks as an important factor in social and economic development of communities. Due to the effect of science in development advanced societies, more importance gives to science and science education with each passing day. In addition to this, science and science education is still not at the desired level to be effective. Science training should be made more efficient in the early childhood years to be more effective. Children who meet with science in early childhood years gain a positive attitude towards science and develop scientific and academic skills later in their life. Therefore, we should develop science centers and give more importance to science centers to give more effective science education in the early years. Through this research, interview form was developed by researchers for examined opinions of the teachers about science centers and the quality of science centers in pre-school education classes. The sample of the study was consisted of 27 pre-school teachers. As a result of research pre-school teachers identified science center as a place of concrete life events and learning by doing and experiencing. The other result is that teachers activities, done by them mostly, include test activities and events based on his or her observation, but teachers don’t use instructional methods, concept maps and analogies in science education. The materials in the science center are not enough and science centers include accessible simple materials. In conclusion science centers should be supported by laboratory materials and technological equipments.

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