TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Effect of Stem Education on Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Perception of Interdisciplinary Education
AB  - In both Turkey and the other countries, disciplines in curricula emphasize interdisciplinary approachunder the heading of “related with the other courses”. STEM education is one of these approaches. Onemajor problem faced by STEM education is the shortage of professional programs which guide teachersabout the relationship between STEM disciplines and how to teach it in class. This study was carried outto investigate the change in pre-service science teachers’ perspective of interdisciplinary relation aftergiving them pre-service education on interdisciplinary STEM education. Case study research model wasused in the study. The study was conducted with 32 pre-service science teachers in the third grade inRecep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Education during the fall semester in the 2015-2016academic year. In the scope of this study, science pre-service teachers were given pre-service educationon interdisciplinary STEM approach; pre-test and post-test data were collected by applying the STEMWAT and STEM surveys to the participants; and the collected data were analyzed with descriptiveanalysis. According to the pre-test results, the participants were able to relate science education to variousdisciplines prior to the STEM education. In the post-test results, despite a decrease in the number ofdisciplines related to natural sciences, an evident increase was reported in the number of relations withcertain disciplines such as Mathematics, Technology and Engineering. Before the STEM education, preservice teachers were thinking of relating teaching Natural Sciences to just Mathematics in their futureclasses. After the STEM education, they were reported to think of relating their teaching withMathematics, Technology and Engineering. Moreover almost all pre-service teachers think of benefitingfrom relation of natural sciences with other disciplines in their classes. They thought that such relationwould be useful for both individual and social development of students and instruction.
AU  - UZUN, Neslihan
AU  - ERENLER, Sümeyye
AU  - ÇINAR, Sinan
AU  - PIRASA, Nimet
PY  - 2016
JO  - Journal of Turkish Science Education
VL  - 13
SN  - 1304-6020
SP  - 118
EP  - 142
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/347673
ER  -