scholarly journals The Effect of Social Studies Courses on Digital Self Formation in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol KOÇOĞLU
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The World

The world, which includes all living things from the first human to the present, is based on the process of change and transformation with all its dimensions. It can be stated that this process of change and transformation affects the lives of many living things on earth, as well as remarkable effects on human life. In particular, the digital world, which is one of the important results of technology-based development, can be said to be effective in shaping human life cognitively, psychomotorically and emotionally. This shaping process takes place in educational institutions with the achievements transferred through various fields of study and disciplines. This study, in which the effect of social studies courses on the formation and development process of the digital self-concept, which is based on the cognitive effects of digitalization, was evaluated in line with the perceptions of teachers in Turkey, was designed according to the phenomenological approach, one of the qualitative research methods. The research data were analyzed with the descriptive analysis technique and thematic codes were created based on the findings. A semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers was used to collect data. The research data, the answers to the questions in the interview form, were collected through online interviews with social studies teachers due to the Covid-19 epidemic in the world and in Turkey. In the study supported by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of İnönü University with the Normal Research Project coded SBA-2019-1755, the data obtained were analyzed and the findings were presented in tables and figures. Considering the findings of the study, it can be said that the social studies teachers who make up the study group have different and remarkable perceptions about the effects of social studies lessons on digital self-creation.

scholarly journals The Effect of Social Studies Courses on Digital Self Formation in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol KOÇOĞLU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The World

The world, which includes all living things from the first human to the present, is based on the process of change and transformation with all its dimensions. It can be stated that this process of change and transformation affects the lives of many living things on earth, as well as remarkable effects on human life. In particular, the digital world, which is one of the important results of technology-based development, can be said to be effective in shaping human life cognitively, psychomotorically and emotionally. This shaping process takes place in educational institutions with the achievements transferred through various fields of study and disciplines. This study, in which the effect of social studies courses on the formation and development process of the digital self-concept, which is based on the cognitive effects of digitalization, was evaluated in line with the perceptions of teachers in Turkey, was designed according to the phenomenological approach, one of the qualitative research methods. The research data were analyzed with the descriptive analysis technique and thematic codes were created based on the findings. A semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers was used to collect data. The research data, the answers to the questions in the interview form, were collected through online interviews with social studies teachers due to the Covid-19 epidemic in the world and in Turkey. In the study supported by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of İnönü University with the Normal Research Project coded SBA-2019-1755, the data obtained were analyzed and the findings were presented in tables and figures. Considering the findings of the study, it can be said that the social studies teachers who make up the study group have different and remarkable perceptions about the effects of social studies lessons on digital self-creation.

scholarly journals The Awareness of Social Studies Pre-Service Teachers About the Concept of Environmental Waste Recycling and Acrostics Trials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özlem Ulu Kalın ◽  
Erol Koçoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

Due to globalization and the impact of industrialization and urbanization, natural resources are wasted, and popular consumption leads to environmental waste. The problem of waste that deteriorates individual and social life is a prominent current issue. Recycling, described as the remanufacturing, production and employment of collected material, is an important solution to that problem. The present study aimed to determine the awareness of pre-service social studies teachers about the concept of environmental waste recycling and to analyze acrostic poems written by the participants. The study findings included the views of the pre-service social studies teachers. A semi-structured interview form was developed by the authors under expert supervision and employed to collect the views of the pre-service teachers. The pre-service teachers included in the study sample were assigned with simple random sampling technique and the study group included 162 pre-service social studies teachers. The descriptive survey model was employed in the study, the data were analyzed with content and descriptive analysis techniques to determine thematic codes. Furthermore, an acrostic poem authoring activity on the concept of recycling was conducted with the participants. The poems authored by the participants are presented as a category in a table in the findings section. The study findings revealed significant results on the recycling concept and processes. It was determined that the views of the participating pre-service social studies teachers reflected a high level of awareness on the concept of recycling and exhibited various perspectives on the implementation.

scholarly journals Preservice Social Studies Teachers’ Opinions Regarding History Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Eray Alaca ◽  
Tercan Yildirim
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
History Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Education History ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
History Of

In Turkey, preservice social studies teachers take history education courses such as Revolution History and Kemalism I-II, Ancient History and Civilization, Pre-Islamic Turkish History and Culture, History of Turkish Education, History of Medieval Age, Ottoman History and Civilization I-II, New and Contemporary History, Contemporary World History, and History of Turkish Republic I-II during their undergraduate education. The purpose of this study was to reveal preservice social studies teachers’ opinions regarding how these courses were taught. Within this scope, their perceptions of how these courses were taught and their opinions regarding how history courses should be taught were tried to be determined. The participants of this study involved 125 third and fourth-year undergraduates studying social studies education of a faculty of education at a state university. One of the qualitative research designs, phenomenology was used in this study. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview form. During the interviews, the participants were asked to respond three questions: “What is instruction?”, “How are history courses taught in your department?”, and “how should the history courses be taught?” The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis technique. Direct quotations were used and the emerging themes were presented under some categories in Findings section.

scholarly journals Experiences of prospective social studies teachers in project-based values education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1001-1036
Author(s):  
Fadime Seçgin
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Values Education ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Elective Course

This study, aiming to reveal the experiences of prospective social studies teachers on project-based values education, was carried out in phenomenological design, which is one of the qualitative research designs. The study group consisted of 37 second-year students who received values education as an elective course in the social studies teaching department of a public university and who carried out projects for the values that they determined within the scope of the course. To create a project, the prospective teachers chose values such as equality, responsibility, sensitivity (cultural heritage), helpfulness, attaching importance to being healthy, patriotism, and savings. They implemented their projects on these values to the groups that they found appropriate. At the end of the process, a semi-structured interview form was used as data collection tool to reveal the participants' experiences of project-based values teaching. Descriptive analysis and content analysis were used to analyze the study data. As a result of the study, we concluded that the participants selected the values for their projects for reasons such as “raising awareness on the related values, embodying abstract values, eliminating prejudices, emphasizing the importance of cooperation in society”. Project-based values education was observed to provide the participants with many advantages such as “provision of experience both for values education and the teaching profession, project planning and conduction, improving communication skills, developing a sense of spirituality.”

scholarly journals Creative Thinking Skills in Social Studies Written Exam Questions

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
M. Talha OZALP ◽  
Mehmet AKPINAR
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Central District

In this study, Social Studies teachers tried to examine the questions in their exams according to their creative thinking skills. In the study document analysis and semi-structured interview methods were used for this purpose. A total of 2,065 questions were examined from the examinations prepared by 61 teachers working in 20 different schools in Ortahisar, which is in the central district of Trabzon. The exam questions were examined in terms of the question types commonly used in education, their class levels and their status for creative thinking skills according to their subjects. The SPSS program was used in the analysis of the questions and the findings were presented using frequency and percentage tables and graphs. Interviews with teachers were analyzed by descriptive analysis method. The themes were created from the data obtained from the interview answers. The themes were reflected on the tables according to the frequency of the teachers’ answers. For better understanding of the findings, examples of the teachers’ exam questions and direct quotations from teachers’ answers are given under the tables and graphics. As a result of the research, it was determined that the exam questions prepared by the social studies teachers were inadequate to develop and measure the creative thinking skills of the students.

scholarly journals The Awareness of Social Studies Pre-Service Teachers About the Concept of Environmental Waste Recycling and Acrostics Trials

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Özlem Ulu Kalın ◽  
◽  
Erol Koçoğlu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

Due to globalization and the impact of industrialization and urbanization, natural resources are wasted, and popular consumption leads to environmental waste. The problem of waste that deteriorates individual and social life is a prominent current issue. Recycling, described as the remanufacturing, production and employment of collected material, is an important solution to that problem. The present study aimed to determine the awareness of pre-service social studies teachers about the concept of environmental waste recycling and to analyze acrostic poems written by the participants. The study findings included the views of the pre-service social studies teachers. A semi-structured interview form was developed by the authors under expert supervision and employed to collect the views of the pre-service teachers. The pre-service teachers included in the study sample were assigned with simple random sampling technique and the study group included 162 pre-service social studies teachers. The descriptive survey model was employed in the study, the data were analyzed with content and descriptive analysis techniques to determine thematic codes. Furthermore, an acrostic poem authoring activity on the concept of recycling was conducted with the participants. The poems authored by the participants are presented as a category in a table in the findings section. The study findings revealed significant results on the recycling concept and processes. It was determined that the views of the participating pre-service social studies teachers reflected a high level of awareness on the concept of recycling and exhibited various perspectives on the implementation.

scholarly journals Universální život a život lidský. K ontologii přírody u Jana Patočky a Maurice Merleau-Pontyho

REFLEXE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (60) ◽  
pp. 29-63
Author(s):  
Martin Rabas
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Inorganic Matter ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The present article has two objectives. One is to elucidate the philosophical approach presented in the so-called Strahov Systematic Manuscripts of Jan Patočka in terms of consciousness and nature. The other is to compare this philosophical approach with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theses on nature, as elaborated in 1956–1961, and to point out some advantages and limitations of both approaches. In our opinion, Patočka’s philosophical approach consists, on the one hand, in a descriptive analysis of human experience, which he understands as a pre-reflective self-relationship pointing towards the consciousness of the world. On the other hand, on the basis of this descriptive analysis Patočka consequently explicates all non-human life, inorganic matter, and finally the whole of nature as life in its own right, the essence of which is also a certain self-relation with a tendency towards consciousness. The article then briefly presents Merleau-Ponty’s theses on nature, and finally compares them with Patočka’s overall theses on nature. The advantage of Patočka’s notion of nature as against Merleau-Ponty’s is that, in Patočka’s view, nature encompasses both the principle of unity and individuality. On the other hand, the advantage of Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of nature as against Patočka’s lies in the consistent interconnectedness of the infinite life of nature and the finite life of individual beings.

scholarly journals Are Seminar Periods Supportive of the Professional Development of Social Studies Teachers?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Selcuk Besir Demir ◽  
Soner Dogan ◽  
Turgay Atasoy
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Sample Method

<p>The purpose of this study is to determine the efficiency of the seminar periods intended for contributing to the professional development of social studies teachers based on their own perspectives. This study adopts a qualitative approach and is carried out in the form of a case study. Among the purposeful sampling methods, the criteria sample method was used in the study. The sampling consisted of six social studies teachers in Sivas: three males and three females. In the research, semi-structured interview form was used as a data collection tool. As a result of the analysis conducted in the study, two main themes were identified: 1) findings regarding the seminar period and the activities conducted during that period, and 2) findings regarding the factor of efficiency of the seminar period. Based on the study results, seminar periods are found to be unfruitful for social studies teachers.</p>

Ethics and the Sacred: Can Secular Morality Dispense with Religious Values?

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Norman
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
Religious View ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Value ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
Roger Scruton

AbstractIn this paper I explore the role that the concept of the sacred can play in our moral thinking. I accept that the assertion that ‘human life is sacred’ can be one way of articulating the special value of individual human lives as in some sense inviolable. I cautiously allow that the idea of ‘sacred value’ might also apply to other things such as certain kinds of human commitments, uniquely precious art-works, and some other kinds of living things. In conclusion I offer reasons for resisting the claim, made especially by Roger Scruton, that the experience of the sacred, when properly understood, draws us ineluctably into a religious view of the world.

scholarly journals A Review on Internet of Things

2022 ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Aditi Rajesh Nimodiya ◽  
Shruti Sunil Ajankar
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Component Architecture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Today, Internet has become the most important and a revolutionary invention which has touched almost every corner of the world and has affect human life in tremendous ways. IOT, Internet of things is simply an interaction between the physical and digital world. It is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs). The communication taking place in today's world is basically in the form of human-human or human-machine but IOT has the ability for a great future where communication will take place in the form of machine-machine also. IOT has changed the way of living of people into a high-profile way and has impact in almost various sector which has given a positive impact on world. Also, along with various advantages it has some challenges and disadvantages too. This paper mainly focused on all the importance point related to IOT, how it works, its component, architecture, characteristics, applications, advantages-disadvantages and many more. IOT is overall a vast topic to discuss and talk about.

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