Okul Öncesi Öğretmen Adaylarının Bilimsel Kavramların İçselleştirmesinde Grafikleri Zihin Aracı Olarak Kullanmaları

Bu çalışma okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının topladıkları verileri anlamada bir zihin aracı olarak grafikleri nasıl kullandıklarını ve grafik kullanımının öğretmen adaylarının bilimsel kavramları içselleştirmesini nasıl kolaylaştırdığını incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Yirmi altı okul öncesi öğretmen adayı çalışmaya katılmıştır. Araştırma verileri katılımcı gözlem tekniği ile toplanmıştır. Gözlemler ve gözlem esnasında sınıfta öğrenciler arasında meydana gelen konuşmalar alan notları biçiminde kaydedilmiştir. Bu çalışma verilerin analizi ve yorumlanmasında Vygotsky’nin sosyo-kültürel kuramını temel almıştır. Sonuçlar grafik kullanımının bilişsel yükü azaltarak ve örüntü tanılama ve örüntüden sonuç çıkarma gibi yüksek düzey zihinsel fonksiyonların işlemesini sağlayarak okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının hedeflenen bilimsel kavramları anlamalarını kolaylaştırdığını göstermiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

okul öncesi öğretmen adayları, fen eğitimi dersi, sosyo-kültürel kuram, zihin araçları, astronomi

Preservice Early Childhood Teachers Use of Graphs as Mental Tools in Internalizing Scientific Concepts

The purpose of this study was to examine how preservice early childhood teachers used graphs as a mental tool in a science methods course to make sense of their data and how graph use facilitated preservice teachers’ internalization of scientific concepts. Twenty-six preservice early childhood teachers participated in the study. Data were collected through participant observation technique. Field notes were kept to record observations and discourse taking place during the classroom observations. The current study utilized a Vygotskian framework in the analysis and the interpretation of the study data. The results demonstrated that using the graph as a mediating tool facilitated preservice teachers’ understanding of the targeted science concepts by organizing their data in a way that could reduce the burden of cognitive load to process information, which made it possible for higher psychological functions, such as seeing patterns and deriving conclusions from the pattern, to operate more efficiently.

Keywords:

preservice early childhood teachers, science methods course, socio-cultural theory, mental tools, astronomy,

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