Initiatives and New Trends Towards Stem Education in Turkey

Abstract

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education; Is an educational approach that many countries in the world have included in their curricula that allow learners to view the knowledge they learn in science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, aiming at transforming theoretical knowledge into practice, product and innovative inventions. It is aimed to be able to adapt easily to the qualities of the business life thanks to these skills when the STEM trained individuals enter into the business world, as well as being an approach that is based on giving the skills of STEM education, production and invention. Within the scope of the study, attempts were made to investigate the initiatives and new trends of STEM education from 2010 until the day. Document analysis and thematic content analysis (meta-synthesis) method was used in the research process. Thematic content analysis; Analyze, synthesize and interpret the findings of more than one research on the same subject, with a critical point of view, in contrast to the theme or templates specified and raw data. During the research; Articles, theses, reports and reports which are reached from various sources in the national and international literature have been examined and a wide-scale resource has been created by considering every point related to the contents of the work. The results of the research were examined under various headings and a broad framework was established and recommendations were made.

Thematic Content Analysis of Doctoral Theses in STEM Education: Turkey Context

“…When the studies in the literature are examined, analysis studies on the biometric analysis of scientific research on STEM (Özkaya, 2019), meta synthesis (Herdem & Ünal, 2018), content analysis (Aydın-Günbatar & Tabar, 2019;Çevik, 2017;Kaleci & Korkmaz, 2018), review (Jayarajah, Saat, Rauf & Amnah, 2014;Tezel & Yaman, 2017;Yılmaz, Gülgün, Çetinkaya & Doğanay, 2018), analysis of qualitative findings (Kanadlı, 2019) and methodological analysis of STEM studies (Özcan & Karabaş, 2019) were carried out. Furthermore, analysis/ meta-analysis of STEM-related experimental studies (Belland, Walker, Kim & Lefler, 2017;van den Hurk, meelissen & van Langen, 2019;, metaanalysis of the impact of STEM on cognitive outcomes (Belland, Walker, Olsen & Leary, 2015) and meta-analysis of STEM-related studies (Kim, Belland & Walker, 2018) were conducted.…”

Öğretmen Adaylarının “Su Kirliliği” Kavramına Yönelik Metaforik Algılarının Veri Çeşitlemesi Yoluyla Belirlenmesi

“…Meta-Tematik Analiz: Son yıllarda eğitim bilimleri alanında aktif bir şekilde kullanılmaya başlanan bir yöntemdir (Yılmaz, Gülgün, Çetinkaya & Doğanay, 2018). Özellikle nitel paradigma ile yürütülen çalışmalarda doküman analizinin kullanıldığı ve yığın olarak karşımıza çıkan bilgilerin daha sistemli ve daha anlaşılabilir bir hale getirilmesinde araştırmacılara büyük bir katkı sağlamaktadır (Batdı, 2019).…”

Determination of the Biomimicry Perceptions of Middle School 7th Grade Students through Drawings

“…Today, due to the development of twenty-first century technology, it is emphasized that science, technology and economy should be taught with a holistic perspective and interdisciplinary approach studies in the fields of education should be increased (NRC, 2011). Creativity, critical and computational thinking, mathematics and engineering abilities are twenty-first century skills that should be taught to students (Yılmaz, Gülgün, Çetinkaya ve Doğanay, 2018). One of the interdisciplinary approaches that is effective in acquiring twenty-first century skills and producing solutions to the problems encountered is STEM education.…”