ORTAOKUL ÖĞRENCİLERİ DEĞİŞİM VE SÜREKLİLİĞİ NASIL ALGILIYOR?: ÖĞRENCİ GÖRÜŞLERİNE DAYALI BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Abstract

The content related to change and continuity is taught to students at primary and middle school levels through the social studies course. In this context, it is important to examine how middle school students who take the social studies course perceive change and continuity. The purpose of this research that based on this importance is to determine how middle school students perceive change and continuity. Phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. A total of 22 middle school students participated in the research in which maximum diversity sampling was used. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview form and analyzed using descriptive analysis. At the end of the research, it was determined that middle school students perceived change as compulsory, natural, necessary, regenerator, developer and harmonizer, and perceived continuity as protecting the essence, resistance against degeneration, immutability, keeping past live, immortality. Ita was also determined that students viewed the place of the change and continuity in individual life as a part of daily life, necessary, regulator and humanitarian, and viewed the place of the change and continuity in social life as necessary, regulator, stabilizer and natural. Based on the results, various recommendations were developed.