Does a "Science, Technology and Social Change" Course Improve Scientific Habits of Mind and Attitudes towards Socioscientific Issues?

Autor/inn/en	Çalik, Muammer; Karatas, Faik Özgür
Titel	Does a "Science, Technology and Social Change" Course Improve Scientific Habits of Mind and Attitudes towards Socioscientific Issues?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 44 (2019) 6, S.35-52, Artikel 3 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1835-517X
Schlagwörter	Science and Society; Social Change; Cognitive Processes; Problem Solving; Scientific Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Social Studies; Preservice Teachers; Scientific Literacy; Social Attitudes; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Problemlösen; Ausland; Gemeinschaftskunde; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Türkei
Abstract	The study aimed at exploring whether a "Science-Technology-Social Change" course improved pre-service social studies teachers' (PST) scientific habits of mind and attitudes towards socio-scientific issues. Within a pre- and post-course experimental design, the study was conducted with 135 second-year PST (68 males and 67 females) from two classes at Department of Social Studies Teacher Education in a large-size university, Turkey. Two different Likert type scales, Scientific Habits of Mind Scale and Attitudes towards Socioscientific Issues Scale, were employed to collect data before and after the course. The data were imported to SPSS 15TM for descriptive and inferential statistics in order to address research questions. The results indicated that the STSC course had some shortcomings in improving the PST's scientific habits of mind and attitudes towards socio-scientific issues. The current study recommends enriching the STSC course with tasks that integrate socio-scientific issues and scientific habits of mind into social studies. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01