Journals / Journal of STEAM Education / 2021 / Cilt: 4 - Sayı: 2
The effect of STEM education on 21th century skills: Preservice science teachers’ evaluations
- Journal
- Journal of STEAM Education
- Pages
- 140–167
- DOI
- —
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the opinions of the teachers, who participated in STEM education, about the contribution of this education on the development of their 21st-century skills. Purposeful sampling was used in this qualitative study, which was conducted as a phenomenology study. In this study, 24 pre-service science teachers for 14 weeks trained STEM activities. The data of the research was collected with a questionnaire with open-ended questions and by conducting semi-structured interviews with a preservice science teacher from each group and analyzed contently and descriptively in terms of 21st century learning environments. Preservice science teachers declared that STEM education developed their learning and innovation skills. Finally, it was ascertained that the STEM education provided to the development of the 21st-century skills of preservice science teachers.
Özet
The aim of this study is to examine the opinions of the teachers, who participated in STEM education, about the contribution of this education on the development of their 21st-century skills. Purposeful sampling was used in this qualitative study, which was conducted as a phenomenology study. In this study, 24 pre-service science teachers for 14 weeks trained STEM activities. The data of the research was collected with a questionnaire with open-ended questions and by conducting semi-structured interviews with a preservice science teacher from each group and analyzed contently and descriptively in terms of 21st century learning environments. Preservice science teachers declared that STEM education developed their learning and innovation skills. Finally, it was ascertained that the STEM education provided to the development of the 21st-century skills of preservice science teachers.