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322 İlköğretim Öğrencilerinin Bilim İnsanı… V. H. Kaya, Ö. Afacan, D. Bolat, A. UrtekinYıldırım, A. ve Şimşek H.(2011). Sosyal bilimlerde nitel araştırma yöntemleri. Ankara:Seçkin Yayıncılık.http://www.cicicee.com/cocuk-ozel-dosya.aspx?icerikId=397&sayfaId=6213: Bilim Nedirve Bilim İnsanı Kimdir (Erişim Tarihi 26.07.2012)
Ahi Evran Ünv. Kırşehir Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (KEFAD) Cilt 14, Sayı 1, Nisan 2013 323SUMMARYWhile both theoretical and experimental activities increase each day, do viewstowards scientific knowledge and scientists change according to the findings ofthe studies conducted in education? Is it easier to access scientific knowledge?Are today's children to be scientists of future provided support to accessscientific knowledge? The answers to be provided to these questions will helppave the way for education and scientists in the future to be of high quality. Forinstance, the scientists of the future will be the individuals that can providescientific knowledge through which their followers will better understand theworld. Moreover, scientific knowledge to be provided will help supportindividuals. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the views of the scientists ofthe future towards scientists and scientific knowledge.Following the developments in natural and applied sciences and beingacquainted with the evolution of disciplines, scientists' occupational andpersonality traits can shed light on the issues in teaching natural and appliedsciences (Turgut, Baker, Cunningham & Piburn, 1997). Furthermore, developingconceptual approaches towards scientists and their studies is important tostudents as it will lead to new ways of learning for students (Symington &Spurling, 1990). Investigating students' views on the scientific knowledge that isproduced by scientists might create the opportunity to determine themisconceptions existing in teaching natural and applied sciences. Thus, itbecomes significant to determine the views of both scientists and students aboutscientific knowledge.In the current study, scientific knowledge has also been considered in addition toscientists since students are of the opinion that scientific knowledge related tothe nature of science is socially constructed by scientists and that this knowledgeis subjective, based on facts and open to change (Köseoğlu, Tümay & Budak,2008).In this vein, the current study investigates primary school students' views onscientists and scientific knowledge.Qualitative research methodology has been used in the study since qualitativeresearch focuses on the investigation of social life in its own natural order(Punch, 2005). The current research is framed within case study research, one ofthe qualitative research methods. The main aim in case studies is to analyze acase or situation thoroughly and find out detailed findings (Punch, 2005; Kıncal,2010).The participants of the study were selected using specific field survey methodand purposive sampling method, one of the most frequently used non-randomsampling methods. The population of the study is the students in classesbetween 6 and 8 grades in Kaman in Kırşehir. The participants of the study were
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