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Contemporary efforts involving globalization and science teacher education
Avşar Erümit, Banu; Akerson, Valarie L. (Springer, 2023)Globalization has driven significant developments throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century and the early decades of the twenty-first century. Education and our schools, traditionally local institutions raising ... -
Development of third graders’ identities as “persons who understand nature of science” through a gravity unit
Akerson, Valarie L.; Kaynak, Naime Elcan; Erümit, Banu Avşar (International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019)Nature of science (NOS) is a critical component and should be part of all science lessons. It is critical to begin NOS instruction in the elementary grades, to help young children develop an identity as persons who can ... -
How do learner-directed scientific investigations influence students' questioning and their nature of science conceptions?
Erümit, Banu Avşar; Fouad, Khadija E.; Akerson, Valarie L. (Necmettin Erbakan Univ, 2019)Action research was conducted in two sections of a scientific inquiry class in a Midwestern U.S. university to identify the types of questions that students ask for their investigations, identify emerging patterns regarding ... -
Multiculturalism in higher education: experiences of international teaching assistants and their students in science and math classrooms
Avşar Erümit, Banu; Akerson, Valarie L.; Buck, Gayle A. (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021)Universities with a strong global presence host a large number of international doctoral students. Many of these students teach undergraduate courses as part of a teaching assistantship. There are many benefits associated ... -
Teaching Nature of Science through children's literature: an early childhood preservice teacher study
Akerson, Valarie L.; Erümit, Banu Avşar; Kaynak, Naime Elcan (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)This study incorporated Nature of Science (NOS) within children's literature in a science methods course to aid preservice early childhood teachers in improving their NOS understandings and abilities to transfer NOS into ... -
Using children's literature in the middle school science class to teach nature of science preservice teachers' development of sources
Avşar Erümit, Banu; Akerson, Valarie L. (Springer, 2021)In this study, we report the results of the content analysis of preservice middle school science teachers' own written science storybooks and middle school female students' reflections of five of the books. The participants ...