TY - JOUR TT - THE PERSPECTIVES OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS AFTER PARTICIPATING IN ARTVIN NATURE AND SCIENCE CAMP AU - Açışlı Çelik, Sibel AU - Kumandas, Hatice PY - 2016 DA - September JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences JO - EPESS PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2587-1730 SP - 237 EP - 240 VL - 5 KW - Science camp KW - middle school students KW - science KW - nature N2 - “Artvin Natura and Science Camp” was supported byTUBITAK in order to make science and technology-based learning more fun andenjoyable. It is a project aiming to develop students' awareness towards natureand science and gain new information about these two topics. The aim of thisstudy is to determine the perspectives of middle school students towardsscience and scientists after participating a nature and science camp. The studywas conducted on 15 girls and 15 boys (14 6th grade and 16 7thgrade students) who were randomly selected from middle schools in Artvin withinthe scope of TUBITAK 4004-Artvin Nature and Science Camp. In the study, a case study approach which is one of the qualitative research approaches, and asemi-structured interview form was used. Results of these interviews wereanalyzed using content analysis. NVIVO 10 package program was used in theanalyses. In the studies conducted, 30% of the students think that science is“producing, exploring and inventing new things”, 17% of them consider science as“explaining the unknown” and 13% of them think that think that science is“learning new information or combining knowledge”, respectively. Studentsdescribe their role model scientists as those mostly invented technologicaltools and devices, tried to protect health and nature and facilitated the lifeof people. Besides, students want to invent a phone, “which will never run outof battery, receives signal everywhere and it can be charged through solarenergy” as a technological device. Considering the age group of students, theidea of inventing a cell phone is very reasonable. In addition, the number ofstudents who want to develop a flying car and cancer drugs is higher comparedto others. In general, the products wanted to be invented are seen to be usefulfor society and environment. Only 3% of the students want to develop“undefeated warriors for wars and living creatures with modified DNA” to fightin the wars. As a result, it has been seen that students participating in theproject think that science should be used for human interest and scientistsmust invent products for the benefit of man and nature.  CR - Bozdoğan, B., Şengül, Ü., & Bozdoğan, A.E. (2013). Fen Bilgisi Öğretmen Adaylarının Bilim İnsanları Hakkındaki Bilgi Düzeylerinin İncelenmesi: Giresun Eğitim Fakültesi Örneği. Karadeniz Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 5(9). Kara, B., & Akarsu, B. (2013). Ortaokul öğrencilerinin bilim insanına yönelik tutum ve imajının belirlenmesi. Journal of European Education, 3(1). Kaya, O. N., Doğan, A. ve Öcal, E. (2008). Türk İlköğretim Öğrencilerinin Bilim İnsanı İmajı. Eğitim Araştırmaları Avrasya Dergisi, 32, 83-100. Nuhoğlu, H., & Afacan, Ö. (2011). İlköğretim Öğrencilerinin Bilim İnsanına Yönelik Düşüncelerinin Değerlendirilmesi. Journal of Kirsehir Education Faculty, 12(3). Özsoy, S., & Ahı, B. (2014). Images of Scientists through the Eyes of the Children. Necatibey Faculty of Education Electronic Journal of Science & Mathematics Education, 8(1). Tekbıyık, A., Şeyihoğlu, A., Sezen, V.G., & Konur, B.K. (2013). Aktif öğrenmeye dayalı bir yaz bilim kampının öğrenciler üzerindeki etkilerinin incelenmesi. The Journal Of Academic Social Studies, 6(1), 1383-1406. Türkmen, H. (2008). Turkish primary students’ perceptions about scientist and what factors affecting the image of the scientist. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education,4(1), 55-61. Yıldırım, A., & Şimşek, H. (2006). Sosyal bilimlerde nitel arastirma yöntemleri. Seçkin Yayıncılık. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/issue//334531 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/334825 ER -