A qualitative study towards infusing popular culture on teaching practice in classroom

Bu araştırmanın amacı Türkiye’de sınıf içi öğretim uygulamalarına çizgi film, TV dizileri vb.den oluşan popular kültürün öğelerinin etkisini belirlemektir. Popüler kültür eğitimde önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Bu çalışma da çocukların yaşamında önemli rol oynayan popular kültürün öğelerinin öğretmenler tarafından öğretimde ne düzeyde kullanıldığını ortaya koymaktadır. Öğretmenler popular kültürün öğelerini bilinçli ya da bilinçsizce öğretime adapte etmektedirler. Popüler kültür öğretmenlerin günlük ders planlarındaki alıştırmalar, eğitimsel etkinlikler ve yöntemlerine de etki etmektedir. Popüler kültür bazen ders planlarında güdüleyici ve motivasyon öğesi olarak da yer almaktadır. Öğretmenler de buna karşı olsalar bile bazen gerçek yaşamla bağlantıyı kolaylaştırdığı için günlük sınıf içi etkinliklerde popüler kültürün etkisi olduğunu fark etmişlerdir. Karşı olsalar bile popüler kültürün eğitimin bir gerçeği olduğunu kabul etmişlerdir.

Popüler kültür’ün sınıf içi öğretim uygulamalarına adaptasyonuna yönelik niteliksel bir araştırma

The aim of this study was to define the impact of infusing popular culture’s elements such as comics, TV series, popular music etc. on teaching practice in classroom in Turkey. Popular culture plays an important role in education. This study reveals that teachers often use popular culture that plays an important role in the lives of children in the classroom. Teachers attempt to integrate popular culture into the lessons in many different ways consciously or spontanesly. Popular culture is reflected in the, methods, and educational activities and drills in daily lesson plans. Popular culture is included sometimes as a reinforcing unit for some other units in lesson plans. Teachers noticed that they had to integrate popular culture into the teaching context because it allowed them to make connections between real life and school thus making daily classroom implementations better. Although teachers are against popular culture, they all agree that it is a reality for schooling and sometimes they use it reluctantly.

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