Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
8th international Halich congress on multidisiplinary scientific research, İstanbul, Türkiye, 3 - 05 Aralık 2024, ss.758-777, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
When we look at the innovative educational approaches of countries around the world in recent years, the importance of STEM education, which aims to increase the number of individuals educated by teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields by integrating them with different understanding, methods and techniques, comes to the fore (Bybee, 2013; Çelik Keser, 2021). STEM education has an important place in education systems today and applications in this field are gaining more and more importance (DeCoito & Myszkal, 2018). The aim of this research is to determine the opinions of the faculty members about STEM education practices. A total of 15 faculty members working at Kafkas University Dede Korkut Faculty of Education and Iğdır University were selected as participants by using the phenomenological design, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and examined using the content analysis method. As a result of the study, it was determined that the faculty members; It was determined that they were knowledgeable about the definition of STEM, most of them had not received education related to STEM, they thought that STEM activities had positive effects on students, there were some deficiencies in implementing STEM, they needed to improve themselves in STEM and they generally had positive views about STEM education. In addition, it was emphasized in the research that how the deficiencies could be eliminated should be evaluated by considering other studies related to STEM. In the research, in line with the opinions of the faculty members regarding STEM education practices, suggestions were made such as making the lesson times more suitable by considering the problem of lack of time stated by the faculty members, conducting new studies to generalize the positive views obtained with the limited participant data in the research and organizing educational seminars for academicians in order to make STEM education applicable in our country.