The Metaphors of Turkish, Bulgarian and Romanian Students on STEM Disciplines


İdil Ş.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION (IJCI), cilt.11, ss.147-162, 2019 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

This study was conducted with both Bulgarian and Turkish eight
-
grade students, who studied in two
different middle schools. It
was aimed to understand Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish students’ metaphors
on STEM disciplines. 18 Bulgarian, 23 Romanian and 20 Turkish students voluntarily participated in this
study. Within this context, four separate statements were given to the stud
ents to be filled with their
metaphors. The statement was like “Science looks like ..., because ... .” It is inferred from the results that
Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish students’ metaphors are different from each other