Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 3 Sayfa Aralığı: 368 - 392 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.17569/ tojqi.656965 İndeks Tarihi: 24-11-2020

Teachers’ Conceptual Perceptions and Thoughts about Learning Environment

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The literature provides perspectives in relation to the links between student perceptions of learningenvironment and their cognitive and affective outcomes but falls short in qualitatively explaining whatteachers’ perceptions are in relation to classroom learning environment and its various characteristics.Hence, this study aimed to investigate teachers’ perceptions about learning environment characteristicsfacilitative to students’ outcomes and their conceptualizations concerning the term “learningenvironment”. The study was designed as basic qualitative descriptive research and attempted to elicitqualitative data from eight social sciences teachers working at state secondary schools. The resultsrevealed that teachers had a tendency to conceptualize learning environment as a physical construct atfirst. Some of them also mentioned the social and psychosocial connotations or dimensions of the term.Three group of factors in the learning environment (categorized as physical, social and classroomassessment-based) were reported to be facilitative to student outcomes by the participants of this study.
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Öğretmenlerin Öğrenme Ortamına Yönelik Kavramsal Algı ve Düşünceleri

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Alan yazın öğrencilerin bilişsel ve duyuşsal kazanımları ile onların öğrenme ortamına ilişkin algıları arasındaki ilişkiler bağlamında yeterli kanıtlar sunarken, öğretmenlerin sınıf öğrenme ortamına ve bu ortamı oluşturan çeşitli özelliklere yönelik düşüncelerini açıklama hususunda yetersiz kalmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, bu çalışma öğretmenlerin öğrenme ortamı kavramından ne anladıklarını ve öğrenci kazanımlarına katkı sunan öğrenme ortamı özelliklerine yönelik düşüncelerini araştırmayı amaç edinmiştir. Temel nitel betimsel araştırma deseni ile kurgulanan bu çalışmaya ait nitel veriler devlet okullarında orta öğretim düzeyinde hizmet veren sekiz sosyal bilgiler öğretmeninden elde edilmiştir. Çalışma sonuçları çoğu sosyal bilgiler öğretmeninin öğrenme ortamı kavramını daha çok sınıfların fiziksel şart ve özellikleri ile ilişkilendirdiğini ve bir kısmının ise bu kavramı daha sosyal ve psikososyal boyutları olan bir kavram olarak gördüğünü ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca, bu öğretmenler sınıf öğrenme ortamlarında yer alan bir takım fiziksel, sosyal ve sınıf içi değerlendirmelere dayalı etmenlerin öğrenci kazanımlarını olumlu olarak etkileyebileceği konusunda görüş bildirmişlerdir.
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MLA Tunçsiper Bedriye,MUTLU GÜLÇİN Teachers’ Conceptual Perceptions and Thoughts about Learning Environment. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, vol.11, no.3, 2020, ss.368 - 392. 10.17569/ tojqi.656965
AMA Tunçsiper B,MUTLU G Teachers’ Conceptual Perceptions and Thoughts about Learning Environment. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry. 2020; 11(3): 368 - 392. 10.17569/ tojqi.656965
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IEEE Tunçsiper B,MUTLU G "Teachers’ Conceptual Perceptions and Thoughts about Learning Environment." Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 11, ss.368 - 392, 2020. 10.17569/ tojqi.656965
ISNAD Tunçsiper, Bedriye - MUTLU, GÜLÇİN. "Teachers’ Conceptual Perceptions and Thoughts about Learning Environment". Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 11/3 (2020), 368-392. https://doi.org/10.17569/ tojqi.656965