Examination of the 2024 Türkiye Science Curriculum in terms of Engineering Integration

Authors : İlknur Taşdelen, Yasemin Hacıoğlu
Pages : 714-766
Doi:10.17984/adyuebd.1739968
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Publication Date : 2025-12-31
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :This study aims to examine the 2024 Science Curriculum in terms of engineering integration. Analyzing the curriculum, in terms of engineering integration is expected to facilitate the integration of engineering into science education for teachers, researchers, and other practitioners. In this qualitative case study, the 2024 Science Curriculum was treated as a document and the current situation was attempted to be revealed using document analysis methods. In the curriculum\\\'s objectives, content, implementation, and evaluation components were examined in detail; statements related to the engineering discipline and the engineering design process were identified and the codes created were categorized. The findings were interpreted by visualizing the status according to the curriculum\\\'s components, grade levels, subject areas and units. Engineering integration was found in all components of the curriculum. However, in the curriculum\\\'s purpose and content components, engineering integration is limited to the grade level, subject, and stages of the design process. The emphasis on engineering integration is greater in the curriculum\\\'s implementation or assessment component, and is present in every subject, unit, and grade level, particularly in the subject of physics. Engineering integration is reflected in the curriculum more through the design creation and assessment stages. The curriculum emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of engineering for engineering integration. Compared to the relevant literature, in order to strengthen engineering integration in the curriculum, it is necessary to reflect it in the same way in all components and all subjects at all grade levels and to implement all stages of the engineering design process.
Keywords : Disiplinler arası öğretim, fen eğitimi, fen bilimleri dersi öğretim programı

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