Skills and Values Concepts in Life Science Course Curriculum

Authors : Ayşe AŞKAN, Bayram TAY, Durdane ÖZTÜRK

Pages : 44-77

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Publication Date : 2022-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study intents to reveal to what extent the Life Science Lesson Curriculum covers the skills and values that children should acquire, and also to depict the use of these skills and values in a comparative manner. In line with this core goal, the objectives, behaviors and achievements in the Life Science Lesson Curriculums have been reviewed with regards to skills and values. Furthermore, to what level these skills and values were covered and their distribution in the curriculums have also been studied. Document analysis method from the qualitative methods is used in this research and the data, which was analyzed and interpreted, is collected from the 1926, 1936, 1948, 1968, 1998, 2005/2009, 2015 and 2018 Life Science Lesson Curriculums each of which was considered a document. According to the document analysis related to the skills and values that the 1926, 1936, 1948, 1968, 1998, 2005/2009, 2015 and 2018 Life Science Lesson Curriculums cover, all of the 1926, 1936, 1948, 1968, 1998, 2005/2009, 2015 and 2018 Life Science Lesson Curriculums include skills and values. 1998, 2005/2009 and 2018 curriculums, each covering 26 skills, are the ones that contain the highest number of skills. The 1968 curriculum, covering only 16 skills, is the one that covers the least skills. When reviewed in terms of Curriculum dimension, the 2018 curriculum, covering 22 values, is found to be the one that covers the highest number of values. The 1926 curriculum, covering only 5 values, is the one that covers the least skills. When skills and values dimensions were reviewed together, it is found that the 2018 curriculum is the most concentrated curriculum among the other Life Science Lesson Curriculums and the 1968 curriculum is found to be the least concentrated one.
Keywords : Hayat bilgisi dersi, öğretim programı, beceriler, değerler, Life science lesson, curriculum, skills, values