international journal of turkish literature culture education, Apr 9, 2023
Bu çalışmanın amacı Kırşehir İlinde erken çocukluk döneminde X ve Z kuşaklarında oynanan geleneks... more Bu çalışmanın amacı Kırşehir İlinde erken çocukluk döneminde X ve Z kuşaklarında oynanan geleneksel çocuk oyunlarını incelemektir. Bu araştırmada nitel araştırma desenlerinden örnek olay incelemesi kullanılmıştır. Görüşme yönteminin veri toplama yolu olarak kullanıldığı bu araştırmanın katılımcılarını 21 X kuşağı ve 21 Z kuşağı olmak üzere toplam 42 birey oluşturmaktadır. Yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme sorularıyla toplanan veriler içerik analizi ve açık kodlama yöntemleriyle analiz edilmiştir. Katılımcıların cinsiyet, yaş, meslek, eğitim durumu gibi demografik bilgilerine ek olarak ikamet yeri tespit edildikten sonra oynadıkları geleneksel çocuk oyunları ve dijital oyunlar hakkında sorular sorularak katılımcıların görüşleri alınmıştır. Verilerin analizinden elde edilen bulgulara göre X kuşağında 54, Z kuşağında ise 43 farklı geleneksel çocuk oyunun oynandığı tespit edilmiştir. Bunlardan 17 tanesinin her iki kuşakta benzer olduğu bulunmuştur. Dijital oyunların ise sadece Z kuşağında oynandığı ve Covid-19 pandemisi nedeniyle bu oyunlara daha fazla zaman ayrıldığı bulunmuştur. Bu bulgular doğrultusunda somut olmayan kültürel miraslardan birisi olan geleneksel çocuk oyunlarının kuşaklar arasındaki değişimi tespit edilmiştir.
Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişi... more Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişim programının eleştirel medya okuryazarlığı aracılığıyla Türk okul öncesi öğretmenlerinin sürdürülebilir kalkınma için eğitim ile ilgili mesleki gelişimlerine etkisinin araştırılması" başlıklı doktora tezinden üretilmiştir.
Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçse... more Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçsel drama yoluyla katkı sağlamak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu amaca ulaşabilmek için 21 saatlik medya okuryazarlığı ile ilgili süreçsel drama oturumları oluşturulmuştur. Bu çalışma 15 kadın ve 1 erkek olmak üzere toplam 16 öğretmen adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma boyunca veriler, katılımcı paylaşımları ve dokümanlar olmak üzere nitel olarak toplanmış ve çalışmada nitel araştırma deseni kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizi içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda süreçsel drama atölyelerinin katılımcıların medya okuryazarlığı seviyeleri üzerinde olumlu etkiler bıraktığı görülmüştür.
Interdisciplinary Approaches In Esd: Researching Professional Development For Early Childhood Teachers In Turkey In Esd Through Critical Media Literacy
Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de erken çocukluk eğitimi ve medya okuryazarlığı üzerine yazılmış mak... more Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de erken çocukluk eğitimi ve medya okuryazarlığı üzerine yazılmış makaleleri incelemektir. Bu araştırmada nitel araştırma desenlerinden doküman analizi kullanılmıştır. Google akademik üzerinden ilgili sözcük öbekleri yazılarak ulaşılan 16 makale bu çalışmanın dokümanlarını oluşturmuştur. Alan yazından yararlanılarak oluşturulan makale analiz formu kullanılarak ulaşılan makaleler incelenmiştir. Makaleler içerik analizi aracılığıyla yıllara, amaçlara, araştırma yöntemlerine, veri toplama araçlarına, örnekleme ve veri analiz yöntemlerine göre incelenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular frekans ve yüzde kullanılarak tablolar halinde sunulmuştur. Veri analizinden elde edilen bulgulara göre en çok yayın 2023 yılında yapılmıştır. Bunun yanı sıra en çok bireylerin medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerini tespit etmek amacıyla araştırmaların yapıldığı görülmüştür. Makalelerde en çok nitel araştırma yönteminin kullanıldığı ve bu yöntemde de dokümanlar ve yarı yapılandırılmış sorulardan oluşan görüşmeler yoluyla veri toplandığı tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca, araştırmalarda en çok öğretmenlerle çalışıldığı bulunmuştur. Verilerin analizinde ise en çok kestirimsel analiz türlerinin tercih edildiği görülmüştür.
Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişi... more Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişim programının eleştirel medya okuryazarlığı aracılığıyla Türk okul öncesi öğretmenlerinin sürdürülebilir kalkınma için eğitim ile ilgili mesleki gelişimlerine etkisinin araştırılması" başlıklı doktora tezinden üretilmiştir.
This research aims to investigate early childhood educators’ sentiments, attitudes, and concerns ... more This research aims to investigate early childhood educators’ sentiments, attitudes, and concerns towards students with special needs, their efficacy related to inclusive education practices, and how they follow students with special needs in their classrooms. This study uses a convergent/parallel mixed methods research design, including quantitative and qualitative research designs. The sample size of the quantitative part of the study is 135 early childhood educators. The participants for the qualitative part are ten early childhood teachers working with special needs children. The quantitative part of the study uses the scales of sentiments, attitudes, and concerns related to inclusive education and teacher efficacy during inclusive education practices. For the qualitative part of the study, researchers developed interview questions to collect data related to inclusive practices in early childhood education. The quantitative data is analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney,...
Slog Through Thoughts and Find the Right Way with Candle Light
Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research, 2021
Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she de... more Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she determined her Ph.D., research topic, the changing circumstances during her Ph.D., how she overcame these unexpected events, some of the adaptations, and reviews related to her Ph.D. based on these conditions, and how she finally reached the end. Initially, Şule will provide information about her master thesis, since the experiences that she had during this study shape the research topic, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and sample for her dissertation. This chapter will relay the chance Şule had to observe and to make informal dialogues with teachers in their real instructing environment. These encounters throw light on how to construct in-service training for PhD research. Moreover, during causerie with parents, Şule perceived that they expressed concern about children’s excessive media usage. When she considered all these outcomes, she decided to focus on ESD and critical media literacy (CML) as a dissertation topic; however, she was not sure how to combine these two issues. The second step was to search the theoretical background initiates. The third step was to defend her study in front of the committee and the fourth step was to review the dissertation based on the feedback of the committee. After this process was completed, the next step, not only the most exciting but also stressful, was to collect the data. Throughout this step, unexpected events and many misfortunes occurred, but effective time management and endless support from her supervisor circumvented them. After completing the data collection period, came the most vital part of the study data analysis. The last step will be to report the findings, finalize the dissertation and then happily procure the Ph.D. degree.
Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçse... more Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçsel drama yoluyla katkı sağlamak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu amaca ulaşabilmek için 21 saatlik medya okuryazarlığı ile ilgili süreçsel drama oturumları oluşturulmuştur. Bu çalışma 15 kadın ve 1 erkek olmak üzere toplam 16 öğretmen adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma boyunca veriler, katılımcı paylaşımları ve dokümanlar olmak üzere nitel olarak toplanmış ve çalışmada nitel araştırma deseni kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizi içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda süreçsel drama atölyelerinin katılımcıların medya okuryazarlığı seviyeleri üzerinde olumlu etkiler bıraktığı görülmüştür.
This editorial essay introduces a special issue on education for sustainability, early childhood ... more This editorial essay introduces a special issue on education for sustainability, early childhood education and initial teacher education. We adopt a duoethnographic approach to first provide an overview of the issues, gaps, tensions and challenges in past and current trends in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) in initial teacher education (ITE). Then, from our perspectives as four teacher educators located in disparate regions of the world: Finland, Turkiye, Canada, and Australia, we invite readers into our own stories as a starting place to explore the papers within the special issue. Through this dynamic interplay of four critically questioning minds and five papers, we aim to transform, create, and expand understanding of the interplay between ECEfS and ITE. We acknowledge that readers will derive their own understandings and responses from the papers, hence, our interpretations are not prescriptive, but rather aim to provoke further contributions to an emergin...
In this study, we explored early childhood education pre-service teachers’ (ECEPTs’) understandin... more In this study, we explored early childhood education pre-service teachers’ (ECEPTs’) understanding and pedagogical application of education for sustainability (EfS) by critically analyzing EfS implementation during ECEPTs’ practicum. The study examined the challenges and critical aspects of EfS practices in the practicum, and the relationships among mentor teachers, academic mentors, and ECEPTs. A multiple case study methodology was employed involving two purposefully distinct universities with 14 participant students across the two university case study sites. Initially, 22 practicum activity plans for each ECEPT were examined via content analysis; then, the students were individually interviewed about the plans and their implications. Subsequent analysis indicated negligible differences between the two universities’ student activity plans regarding quality (aspects of EfS) and quantity (frequency of EfS activities). The students self-reflected about their EfS understandings and im...
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
There is significant global concern with current environmental problems, yet people's behaviour t... more There is significant global concern with current environmental problems, yet people's behaviour towards the environment has been resistant to change. Young people have the opportunity to bring about desirable changes through environmental behaviours and attitudes. The goal of this study is to better understand the scope of nature relatedness as an attribution interacting with proenvironmental behaviours for Turkish pre-service early childhood teachers. We examined the associations between the domains representing nature relatedness and also sought to identify any differences in nature relatedness with respect to their year of enrolment in a teacher education program. The participants were 402 students attending an Early Childhood Teacher Education Program at one of the two public universities in the capital of Turkey. A Turkish-adapted version of the Nature Relatedness Scale developed by Nisbet, Zelenski, and Murphy was administered to gather the data. Participants were found to have a mostly positive external nature-related worldview. Furthermore, the statistical analysis indicated non-significant differences in their nature relatedness with respect to the year of enrolment in the teacher education program. In terms of the relationships between the constructs representing nature relatedness, the internalized identification with nature was positively correlated with two constructs which refer to his/her physical familiarity as well as attraction to nature, and how individual's relationship with the environment is provoked by his/her behaviour. This research indicates that preservice teachers, who are regarded as important agents for the future implementation of sustainability education, are actually lacking in their nature relatedness constructs and need to develop key competencies in a field that presupposes that they have already acquired sufficient experience of physical and emotional interaction with nature.
Slog Through Thoughts and Find the Right Way with Candle Light
Storied Doctorates, 2021
Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she de... more Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she determined her Ph.D., research topic, the changing circumstances during her Ph.D., how she overcame these unexpected events, some of the adaptations, and reviews related to her Ph.D. based on these conditions, and how she finally reached the end. Initially, Şule will provide information about her master thesis, since the experiences that she had during this study shape the research topic, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and sample for her dissertation. This chapter will relay the chance Şule had to observe and to make informal dialogues with teachers in their real instructing environment. These encounters throw light on how to construct in-service training for PhD research. Moreover, during causerie with parents, Şule perceived that they expressed concern about children’s excessive media usage. When she considered all these outcomes, she decided to focus on ESD and critical media literacy (CML) as a dissertation topic; however, she was not sure how to combine these two issues. The second step was to search the theoretical background initiates. The third step was to defend her study in front of the committee and the fourth step was to review the dissertation based on the feedback of the committee. After this process was completed, the next step, not only the most exciting but also stressful, was to collect the data. Throughout this step, unexpected events and many misfortunes occurred, but effective time management and endless support from her supervisor circumvented them. After completing the data collection period, came the most vital part of the study data analysis. The last step will be to report the findings, finalize the dissertation and then happily procure the Ph.D. degree.
The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towa... more The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towards using Computer Based Education (CBE) while implementing science activities. More specifically, the present study examined the effect of different variables such as gender, year in program, experience in preschool, owing a computer, and the frequency of computer usage on pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towards using CBE while implementing science activities. The study was conducted by survey method and the data were collected by using two instruments which were “Demographical Questionnaire” being developed by researchers and “The Scale of Attitude toward Computer Based Education” being developed by Arslan (2006) and adapted by the researchers for early childhood education domain specifically. The sample of this study was 215 freshmen and senior early childhood teacher candidates attending state universities in Ankara. The data were analyzed by conducting t-tests and AN...
Investigating the impact of professional development on Turkish early childhood teachers’ professional growth about education for sustainable development through critical media literacy
Australian journal of environmental education, 2020
international journal of turkish literature culture education, Apr 9, 2023
Bu çalışmanın amacı Kırşehir İlinde erken çocukluk döneminde X ve Z kuşaklarında oynanan geleneks... more Bu çalışmanın amacı Kırşehir İlinde erken çocukluk döneminde X ve Z kuşaklarında oynanan geleneksel çocuk oyunlarını incelemektir. Bu araştırmada nitel araştırma desenlerinden örnek olay incelemesi kullanılmıştır. Görüşme yönteminin veri toplama yolu olarak kullanıldığı bu araştırmanın katılımcılarını 21 X kuşağı ve 21 Z kuşağı olmak üzere toplam 42 birey oluşturmaktadır. Yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme sorularıyla toplanan veriler içerik analizi ve açık kodlama yöntemleriyle analiz edilmiştir. Katılımcıların cinsiyet, yaş, meslek, eğitim durumu gibi demografik bilgilerine ek olarak ikamet yeri tespit edildikten sonra oynadıkları geleneksel çocuk oyunları ve dijital oyunlar hakkında sorular sorularak katılımcıların görüşleri alınmıştır. Verilerin analizinden elde edilen bulgulara göre X kuşağında 54, Z kuşağında ise 43 farklı geleneksel çocuk oyunun oynandığı tespit edilmiştir. Bunlardan 17 tanesinin her iki kuşakta benzer olduğu bulunmuştur. Dijital oyunların ise sadece Z kuşağında oynandığı ve Covid-19 pandemisi nedeniyle bu oyunlara daha fazla zaman ayrıldığı bulunmuştur. Bu bulgular doğrultusunda somut olmayan kültürel miraslardan birisi olan geleneksel çocuk oyunlarının kuşaklar arasındaki değişimi tespit edilmiştir.
Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişi... more Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişim programının eleştirel medya okuryazarlığı aracılığıyla Türk okul öncesi öğretmenlerinin sürdürülebilir kalkınma için eğitim ile ilgili mesleki gelişimlerine etkisinin araştırılması" başlıklı doktora tezinden üretilmiştir.
Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçse... more Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçsel drama yoluyla katkı sağlamak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu amaca ulaşabilmek için 21 saatlik medya okuryazarlığı ile ilgili süreçsel drama oturumları oluşturulmuştur. Bu çalışma 15 kadın ve 1 erkek olmak üzere toplam 16 öğretmen adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma boyunca veriler, katılımcı paylaşımları ve dokümanlar olmak üzere nitel olarak toplanmış ve çalışmada nitel araştırma deseni kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizi içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda süreçsel drama atölyelerinin katılımcıların medya okuryazarlığı seviyeleri üzerinde olumlu etkiler bıraktığı görülmüştür.
Interdisciplinary Approaches In Esd: Researching Professional Development For Early Childhood Teachers In Turkey In Esd Through Critical Media Literacy
Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de erken çocukluk eğitimi ve medya okuryazarlığı üzerine yazılmış mak... more Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de erken çocukluk eğitimi ve medya okuryazarlığı üzerine yazılmış makaleleri incelemektir. Bu araştırmada nitel araştırma desenlerinden doküman analizi kullanılmıştır. Google akademik üzerinden ilgili sözcük öbekleri yazılarak ulaşılan 16 makale bu çalışmanın dokümanlarını oluşturmuştur. Alan yazından yararlanılarak oluşturulan makale analiz formu kullanılarak ulaşılan makaleler incelenmiştir. Makaleler içerik analizi aracılığıyla yıllara, amaçlara, araştırma yöntemlerine, veri toplama araçlarına, örnekleme ve veri analiz yöntemlerine göre incelenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular frekans ve yüzde kullanılarak tablolar halinde sunulmuştur. Veri analizinden elde edilen bulgulara göre en çok yayın 2023 yılında yapılmıştır. Bunun yanı sıra en çok bireylerin medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerini tespit etmek amacıyla araştırmaların yapıldığı görülmüştür. Makalelerde en çok nitel araştırma yönteminin kullanıldığı ve bu yöntemde de dokümanlar ve yarı yapılandırılmış sorulardan oluşan görüşmeler yoluyla veri toplandığı tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca, araştırmalarda en çok öğretmenlerle çalışıldığı bulunmuştur. Verilerin analizinde ise en çok kestirimsel analiz türlerinin tercih edildiği görülmüştür.
Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişi... more Orijinal Makale * Bu makale Şule Alıcı'nın Volkan Şahin danışmanlığında yürüttüğü "Mesleki gelişim programının eleştirel medya okuryazarlığı aracılığıyla Türk okul öncesi öğretmenlerinin sürdürülebilir kalkınma için eğitim ile ilgili mesleki gelişimlerine etkisinin araştırılması" başlıklı doktora tezinden üretilmiştir.
This research aims to investigate early childhood educators’ sentiments, attitudes, and concerns ... more This research aims to investigate early childhood educators’ sentiments, attitudes, and concerns towards students with special needs, their efficacy related to inclusive education practices, and how they follow students with special needs in their classrooms. This study uses a convergent/parallel mixed methods research design, including quantitative and qualitative research designs. The sample size of the quantitative part of the study is 135 early childhood educators. The participants for the qualitative part are ten early childhood teachers working with special needs children. The quantitative part of the study uses the scales of sentiments, attitudes, and concerns related to inclusive education and teacher efficacy during inclusive education practices. For the qualitative part of the study, researchers developed interview questions to collect data related to inclusive practices in early childhood education. The quantitative data is analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney,...
Slog Through Thoughts and Find the Right Way with Candle Light
Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research, 2021
Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she de... more Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she determined her Ph.D., research topic, the changing circumstances during her Ph.D., how she overcame these unexpected events, some of the adaptations, and reviews related to her Ph.D. based on these conditions, and how she finally reached the end. Initially, Şule will provide information about her master thesis, since the experiences that she had during this study shape the research topic, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and sample for her dissertation. This chapter will relay the chance Şule had to observe and to make informal dialogues with teachers in their real instructing environment. These encounters throw light on how to construct in-service training for PhD research. Moreover, during causerie with parents, Şule perceived that they expressed concern about children’s excessive media usage. When she considered all these outcomes, she decided to focus on ESD and critical media literacy (CML) as a dissertation topic; however, she was not sure how to combine these two issues. The second step was to search the theoretical background initiates. The third step was to defend her study in front of the committee and the fourth step was to review the dissertation based on the feedback of the committee. After this process was completed, the next step, not only the most exciting but also stressful, was to collect the data. Throughout this step, unexpected events and many misfortunes occurred, but effective time management and endless support from her supervisor circumvented them. After completing the data collection period, came the most vital part of the study data analysis. The last step will be to report the findings, finalize the dissertation and then happily procure the Ph.D. degree.
Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçse... more Çalışma 3. ve. 4. sınıf okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının medya okuryazarlığı seviyelerine süreçsel drama yoluyla katkı sağlamak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu amaca ulaşabilmek için 21 saatlik medya okuryazarlığı ile ilgili süreçsel drama oturumları oluşturulmuştur. Bu çalışma 15 kadın ve 1 erkek olmak üzere toplam 16 öğretmen adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma boyunca veriler, katılımcı paylaşımları ve dokümanlar olmak üzere nitel olarak toplanmış ve çalışmada nitel araştırma deseni kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizi içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda süreçsel drama atölyelerinin katılımcıların medya okuryazarlığı seviyeleri üzerinde olumlu etkiler bıraktığı görülmüştür.
This editorial essay introduces a special issue on education for sustainability, early childhood ... more This editorial essay introduces a special issue on education for sustainability, early childhood education and initial teacher education. We adopt a duoethnographic approach to first provide an overview of the issues, gaps, tensions and challenges in past and current trends in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) in initial teacher education (ITE). Then, from our perspectives as four teacher educators located in disparate regions of the world: Finland, Turkiye, Canada, and Australia, we invite readers into our own stories as a starting place to explore the papers within the special issue. Through this dynamic interplay of four critically questioning minds and five papers, we aim to transform, create, and expand understanding of the interplay between ECEfS and ITE. We acknowledge that readers will derive their own understandings and responses from the papers, hence, our interpretations are not prescriptive, but rather aim to provoke further contributions to an emergin...
In this study, we explored early childhood education pre-service teachers’ (ECEPTs’) understandin... more In this study, we explored early childhood education pre-service teachers’ (ECEPTs’) understanding and pedagogical application of education for sustainability (EfS) by critically analyzing EfS implementation during ECEPTs’ practicum. The study examined the challenges and critical aspects of EfS practices in the practicum, and the relationships among mentor teachers, academic mentors, and ECEPTs. A multiple case study methodology was employed involving two purposefully distinct universities with 14 participant students across the two university case study sites. Initially, 22 practicum activity plans for each ECEPT were examined via content analysis; then, the students were individually interviewed about the plans and their implications. Subsequent analysis indicated negligible differences between the two universities’ student activity plans regarding quality (aspects of EfS) and quantity (frequency of EfS activities). The students self-reflected about their EfS understandings and im...
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
There is significant global concern with current environmental problems, yet people's behaviour t... more There is significant global concern with current environmental problems, yet people's behaviour towards the environment has been resistant to change. Young people have the opportunity to bring about desirable changes through environmental behaviours and attitudes. The goal of this study is to better understand the scope of nature relatedness as an attribution interacting with proenvironmental behaviours for Turkish pre-service early childhood teachers. We examined the associations between the domains representing nature relatedness and also sought to identify any differences in nature relatedness with respect to their year of enrolment in a teacher education program. The participants were 402 students attending an Early Childhood Teacher Education Program at one of the two public universities in the capital of Turkey. A Turkish-adapted version of the Nature Relatedness Scale developed by Nisbet, Zelenski, and Murphy was administered to gather the data. Participants were found to have a mostly positive external nature-related worldview. Furthermore, the statistical analysis indicated non-significant differences in their nature relatedness with respect to the year of enrolment in the teacher education program. In terms of the relationships between the constructs representing nature relatedness, the internalized identification with nature was positively correlated with two constructs which refer to his/her physical familiarity as well as attraction to nature, and how individual's relationship with the environment is provoked by his/her behaviour. This research indicates that preservice teachers, who are regarded as important agents for the future implementation of sustainability education, are actually lacking in their nature relatedness constructs and need to develop key competencies in a field that presupposes that they have already acquired sufficient experience of physical and emotional interaction with nature.
Slog Through Thoughts and Find the Right Way with Candle Light
Storied Doctorates, 2021
Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she de... more Throughout this chapter, Şule will share some of her academic experiences, focusing on how she determined her Ph.D., research topic, the changing circumstances during her Ph.D., how she overcame these unexpected events, some of the adaptations, and reviews related to her Ph.D. based on these conditions, and how she finally reached the end. Initially, Şule will provide information about her master thesis, since the experiences that she had during this study shape the research topic, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and sample for her dissertation. This chapter will relay the chance Şule had to observe and to make informal dialogues with teachers in their real instructing environment. These encounters throw light on how to construct in-service training for PhD research. Moreover, during causerie with parents, Şule perceived that they expressed concern about children’s excessive media usage. When she considered all these outcomes, she decided to focus on ESD and critical media literacy (CML) as a dissertation topic; however, she was not sure how to combine these two issues. The second step was to search the theoretical background initiates. The third step was to defend her study in front of the committee and the fourth step was to review the dissertation based on the feedback of the committee. After this process was completed, the next step, not only the most exciting but also stressful, was to collect the data. Throughout this step, unexpected events and many misfortunes occurred, but effective time management and endless support from her supervisor circumvented them. After completing the data collection period, came the most vital part of the study data analysis. The last step will be to report the findings, finalize the dissertation and then happily procure the Ph.D. degree.
The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towa... more The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towards using Computer Based Education (CBE) while implementing science activities. More specifically, the present study examined the effect of different variables such as gender, year in program, experience in preschool, owing a computer, and the frequency of computer usage on pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towards using CBE while implementing science activities. The study was conducted by survey method and the data were collected by using two instruments which were “Demographical Questionnaire” being developed by researchers and “The Scale of Attitude toward Computer Based Education” being developed by Arslan (2006) and adapted by the researchers for early childhood education domain specifically. The sample of this study was 215 freshmen and senior early childhood teacher candidates attending state universities in Ankara. The data were analyzed by conducting t-tests and AN...
Investigating the impact of professional development on Turkish early childhood teachers’ professional growth about education for sustainable development through critical media literacy
Australian journal of environmental education, 2020
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