Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi, cilt.13, ss.79-94, 2018 (ESCI)
In recent years, because of some factors such as, wars and unemployment,
refugee and migrant people population have been increasing in Turkey. The aim
of this study is to investigate the factors effect refugee students’ learning
process within the scope of science course. It was focused on to gain the data
deeply, which were taken from the refugee students within science course to
understand the reason of failure in science. This study was conducted in a
middle school, which is located in Ankara, and was carried out with middle
school students, whose ages are from 11 to 14 years old. The study was
conducted with seven refugee students in 2016-2017 education fall term, for six
months. In this study, qualitative method was used, within this scope this study
is a phenomenological study. To collect data of the study, interviews,
observations and document analyse techniques were used. A triangulation was
provided to vary the data of the study. Content analysis and descriptive analysis
techniques were used to obtain of the results of the study. It has been
understood from the observations that students could not understand science
teachers’ statements while they were in science lesson. Science teachers stated
the reasons of students’ failure in science that students do not know Turkish
well (20%), they do not belong themselves to Turkey (20%), economic
conditions (13,33%) and negative school climate (13,33%). Students pointed
out some factors of their failure in science that they are language problems
(11,66%), their family can not help to them within science course (11,66%) and
so on. It can be recommended taking additional science courses after school will
be more useful for refugee students in terms of effective learning science.