Renewed 2024 Science Schedule for Science Teachers Opinions on the Course Teaching Program

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 19, 102 - 120, 25.03.2025

Erkan Kaya , Murat Okur

https://doi.org/10.31458/iejes.1619352

Abstract

Science courses are of great importance in terms of the continuity of societies in general. States are a course that is specifically addressed by keeping them separate from ideological situations among students' courses. For this reason, the course is constantly updated by the institution that carries out planning within the framework of programs. The year 2024 appears as the last period that science course programs have experienced seriously. The programs of 2005, 2013, 2018, including the period after 2000 when radical changes were experienced in science courses, are evaluated in the study. In particular, the year 2024 was tried to be evaluated in detail. It is stated that especially the opinions of teachers are very serious during the examination of the curriculum. For this reason, the evaluation of the 2024 curriculum is provided in our study.

Keywords

Science, science course, curriculum

Ethical Statement

Acknowledgements The article has been generated from the M.A. thesis of the first author, who was supervised by the second author.

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