The purpose of this study is to find out research trends in the field of nature of science in Turkey by examining the articles and theses that were published between 2006 and 2016. For this purpose, the researches about nature of science were evaluated in terms of their publishing dates, number of authors, methods, data collection procedures and tools, sample characteristics, data analysis techniques, subject areas, publishing language and their topics. In this research, studies of the nature of science (i.e., master's theses and doctoral dissertations that were indexed by the Higher Education Council's National Thesis Center as well as research articles that were published in the journals indexed by the ULAKBIM Database) published between the years of 2006 and 2016 were analyzed. The studies that were included in this research (i.e., 52 master's theses, 25 doctoral dissertations, and 59 research articles) were analyzed. According to the results, it was determined that the majority of the articles used qualitative research method. Also, content analysis to analyze the data was used. Many of them used questionnaires as data collection tool and, undergraduate students were taken as samples. Turkish was mostly used as the publishing language in the analyzed researches. According to research findings, science education was determined as mostly evaluated research area.
Many different methods of acquisition of values are described in the previous studies. Some secondary resources may also be required when using these methods. Children's magazines, one of such helpful sources, should be given importance in this regard. Considering the ease of access to children's magazines and their interesting content, it can be said that their content has very significant effects on children. Their content is important in terms of the acquisition of values. The aim of this study is to analyse the content of children's magazines in acquisition of values to children. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The sample of the study include four children's magazine published in Turkey which have the highest circulation. With the "Value Assessment Form" that is developed by the authors, the value of helpfulness in the children's magazines was analyzed by two different researchers using the content analysis method. The findings of the study indicate that the value of helpfulness is significantly covered in magazines analysed. The order of the children's magazines in terms of containing the value of helpfulness is as follows: TRT Çocuk (TRT Children's magazine), National Geographic Kids, Araştırmacı Çocuk (Researchers Kids) and Bilim Çocuk (Science Kids). In each issue of all magazines this value is found to be covered.
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