Science teachers’s perceptions of the 2006 Turkish Elementary Science and Technology Curriculum1

The aim of this study was to reveal the science teachers’ perceptions of the fundamentals of the 2006 Elementary Science and Technology Curriculum and the level of consistency of these perceptions with the content of the curriculum in order to get deeper understanding of the implementation and  adoption level of the curriculum. An exploratory qualitative research was operated through in-depth interviews with 9 science teachers. To directly deal with ego-threat, a relatively new technique, game activity, was developed as the data gathering tool. The findings indicated that although teachers spend an effort to implement the curriculum, since they did not examine it closely, their efforts go in vain.