The main aim of this research is to analyse ten volumes of Journal of Baltic Science Education (JBSE) according to the authors’ nationality and research topics of the articles published in the journal between 2002 and 2011. The journal published ten volumes, 27 issue and 166 articles since 2002. The articles were submitted by 343 authors from 31 countries. Statistical analyses show that the authors from Turkey are ranking highest in terms of the number of published papers. Latvia and Lithuania follow Turkey as second and third countries. The study found out that the articles regarding learning-conception, teaching, learning-context and goals, policy and curriculum most frequently investigated by the researchers. However, in 2002-2011, there is no article related to informal learning. The researchers gave less attention to cultural, social and gender issues when compared other research topics in the scope of JBSE. Key words: content analysis, Journal of Baltic Science Education.
In this chapter, the authors first discuss how Roger’s theory of innovation diffusion can be incorporated into ICTs in formal and informal learning and teaching environments. The authors begin by presenting the use of ICT in education in general terms, then they introduce Rogers’ diffusion of innovation (DoI) theory and the related literature. This is followed by a description of a project which explored the relationship between some characteristics of primary science teachers and their attitudes toward the use of ICT in education. A national project was funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK), and Ege University, Science and Technology Application and Research Center. The last section involves a discussion of the diffusion of technological innovations into science education in the light of Rogers’ DoI theory.
Industry 4.0 and its applications are one of the most important issues of countries that want to keep their competitiveness in the field of scientific, technological and innovation in today's world. The Countries that are not able to adapt to Industry 4.0 processes will not be able to develop scientifically and technologically or keep up with current innovation processes. One of the aims of this paper is to explain the concept of industry 4.0 to our readers in a comprehensible manner and to show how much science education is actually related to industry 4.0. In a general sense, Industry 4.0 or in other words, the 4th Industrial Revolution is an expression that includes many modern automation processes, large databases that communicate with each other, robotic devices and dark factories, in short, quality production technologies. In addition, Industry 4.0 includes modern technologies such as additive manufacturing, autonomous robots, big data, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, system integration, internet of things, cybersecurity, cloud computing, machine learning, deep learning etc. These technologies play an important role especially in the formation of new smart factories.
The main aim of this study is to present pre-service teachers' views on the ecology and environmental education, human brain and genetics, health and sexual education. The presented paper in here is a follow-up study of European Commission supported project titled Biohead-Citizen which included 26 partners. The Biohead-Citizen project aims to understand how Biology, Health and Environmental Education can promote a better citizenship, including their affective and social dimensions, analyzing possible differences in 26 countries and associating them to controlled parameters, (e.g. social context, religion, gender). The questionnaire developed in the context of Biohead-Citizen project was used as main data collection tool in the study. A pilot study was conducted for reliability issues, implementing the questionnaire to 133 pre-service science teachers. The final version of translated questionnaire was administered to the 210 pre-service teachers who are at the last grade of their education at the faculty of education in Turkey. The findings of this study showed that pre-service teachers particularly give importance to items in the health and sexual education: "families should be responsible for the health education"; "the health education at the school improves students' behavior", "schools have to take into account public health policies". Regarding human brain and genetics, the participants quite agree that "women can be as intelligent as men"; "identical twins have identical immune responses to transplants from one other person" and they strongly disagree that "ethnics groups are genetically different and that is why some are superior to others". They also indicated their ecology and environmental education views and most of them strongly agree that "we must aside to protect endangered species", "the main goal of environmental education in school should be developing behavior that is respectful". In the study, there are no significant differences in the mean scores for males and females, and according to the participants' childhood living place, father-mother education level, and their branches. The further findings and conclusions are presented with literature reviews.
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