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STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences

Cilt: 10 Sayı: 4 27 Ekim 2019
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STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences

Abstract

STEM education is based on interrelated and holistic teaching of the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It is important to ensure that STEM education does not address a certain category of society only but that it is also applied to disadvantaged segments of society. The aim of the present study is to identify the opinions of socio-economically disadvantaged students and their teachers about STEM education experience. The study was planned according to the case study model. The participants of the research consisted of a teacher and 34 Grade-8 students studying in a regional boarding school (RBS) in a northern province of Turkey. In the study, a unit (Living Beings and Life) within the scope of 8th grade science course was planned in accordance with STEM education. The data of the study were collected through student diaries and the field notes taken by the teacher. The data obtained from student diaries were subjected to content analysis, and the field notes were analysed with descriptive analysis. It was determined that the RBS students evaluated STEM-focused activities and the related applications in terms of their contributions to their learning process, 21st-century skills, their perceptions about STEM disciplines and the development of their career awareness on STEM fields. The results obtained from the teachers’ field notes showed that the students’ participation and group work skills increased, that the students had fun and became motivated in the course, and that they experienced an improvement in their skills of associating what they learned with their daily life, solving problems and designing and in their engineering awareness.

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Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

27 Ekim 2019

Gönderilme Tarihi

4 Eylül 2019

Kabul Tarihi

26 Ekim 2019

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2019 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 4

Kaynak Göster

APA
Bozkurt Altan, E., & Köroğlu, E. (2019). STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 10(4), 462-489. https://doi.org/10.17569/tojqi.615378
AMA
1.Bozkurt Altan E, Köroğlu E. STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences. TOJQI. 2019;10(4):462-489. doi:10.17569/tojqi.615378
Chicago
Bozkurt Altan, Esra, ve Esra Köroğlu. 2019. “STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences”. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 10 (4): 462-89. https://doi.org/10.17569/tojqi.615378.
EndNote
Bozkurt Altan E, Köroğlu E (01 Ekim 2019) STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 10 4 462–489.
IEEE
[1]E. Bozkurt Altan ve E. Köroğlu, “STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences”, TOJQI, c. 10, sy 4, ss. 462–489, Eki. 2019, doi: 10.17569/tojqi.615378.
ISNAD
Bozkurt Altan, Esra - Köroğlu, Esra. “STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences”. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 10/4 (01 Ekim 2019): 462-489. https://doi.org/10.17569/tojqi.615378.
JAMA
1.Bozkurt Altan E, Köroğlu E. STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences. TOJQI. 2019;10:462–489.
MLA
Bozkurt Altan, Esra, ve Esra Köroğlu. “STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences”. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, c. 10, sy 4, Ekim 2019, ss. 462-89, doi:10.17569/tojqi.615378.
Vancouver
1.Esra Bozkurt Altan, Esra Köroğlu. STEM Education for Disadvantaged Students: Teacher and Student Experiences. TOJQI. 01 Ekim 2019;10(4):462-89. doi:10.17569/tojqi.615378