Citizenship education with active learning methods

Öz

When citizenship education is given to individuals with the aim of creating change in society, its power to raise good citizens increases. Citizenship education forms a part of the foundation that can affect students' later lives by providing them with citizenship values, behaviors and tendencies. Citizenship education should be made accessible, interesting and meaningful for students. Students can learn by living and doing citizenship. Teachers should provide students with the skills to cooperate, solve problems themselves and express their innovative thoughts clearly in order to create change in society. Teachers should create active learning environments where students can learn both in and out of school in order to ensure that students participate in society in various ways and increase their motivation to learn about society and the world. In this way, teachers can help students develop as participatory citizens. Teachers can expand students' citizenship knowledge and skills with active learning methods such as storybooks, discussion of current events, out-of-school learning and interdisciplinary learning. The purpose of this study is to provide information to teachers, researchers and textbook writers about the effect of active learning-based citizenship education on providing students with citizenship knowledge and skills. It has been determined that as a result of the use of active learning in citizenship education, critical thinking, rethinking, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills are developed in students. Teachers can use active learning methods to make citizenship education accessible, interesting and meaningful for students. Teachers can conduct interdisciplinary studies to provide authentic skills to students.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• citizenship,
• education,
• active learning,
• student,
• teacher.

Aktif öğrenme yöntemleriyle yurttaşlık eğitimi

Öz

Yurttaşlık eğitimi, bireylere toplumda değişim yaratma hedefiyle verildiğinde iyi vatandaşlar yetiştirme gücü artar. Yurttaşlık eğitimi, öğrencilere yurttaşlık değer, davranış ve eğilimleri kazandırarak sonraki yaşamlarını etkileyebilecek temelin bir parçasını oluşturur. Yurttaşlık eğitimini öğrenciler için erişilebilir, ilgi çekici ve anlamlı kılmak gerekir. Öğrenciler yurttaşlığı yaparak yaşayarak öğrenebilirler. Öğretmenler toplumda değişim yaratmak için öğrencilere iş birliği yapabilecekleri, sorunları kendilerinin çözebileceği, yenilikçi düşüncelerini açık bir biçimde ifade edebilecekleri becerileri öğrencilerine kazandırmalıdır. Öğretmenler öğrencilerin çeşitli yollarla topluma katılmalarını sağlamak için hem okul içinde hem de okul dışında öğrenebilecekleri aktif öğrenme ortamları oluşturmaları, onların toplum ve dünya hakkında bilgi edinmeleri için motivasyonlarını artırmalıdır. Bu sayede öğretmenler öğrencilerin katılımcı yurttaşlar olarak gelişmesine yardımcı olabilir. Öğretmenler hikâye kitapları, güncel olayların tartışılması, okul dışı öğrenme ve disiplinler arası öğrenmeler gibi aktif öğrenme yöntemleriyle öğrencilerin yurttaşlık bilgi ve becerilerini genişletebilirler. Bu çalışmanın amacı aktif öğrenmeye dayalı yurttaşlık eğitiminin öğrencilere yurttaşlık bilgi ve beceri kazandırmadaki etkisine yönelik öğretmenlere, araştırmacılara ve ders kitabı yazarlarına bilgi sunmaktır. Yurttaşlık eğitiminde aktif öğrenmelerin kullanılması sonucunda öğrencilerde eleştirel düşünme, yeniden düşünme, problem çözme, iş birliği ve iletişim becerilerinin geliştiği belirlenmiştir. Öğretmenler yurttaşlık eğitimini öğrenciler için erişilebilir, ilgi çekici ve anlamlı kılmak için aktif öğrenme yöntemlerini kullanabilirler. Öğretmenler otantik becerileri öğrencilere kazandırmak için disiplinler arası çalışmalar yapabilirler.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• yurttaşlık,
• eğitim,
• aktif öğrenme,
• öğrenci,
• öğretmen.

Kaynakça

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