THE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CITIZENSHIP IN 5TH GRADE STUDENTS’ MIND MAPS
İLKÖĞRETİM 5. SINIF ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN ZİHİN HARİTALARINDA VATANDAŞLIK BİLGİLERİ İLE İLGİLİ KAVRAM YANILGILARI

Author : Ayça KARTAL -- İlhan TURAN
Number of pages : 373-383

Abstract

Mind maps have been using frequently as an education and training tecnique in recent years. According to some researchers, mind maps are an entertaining and faster way to taking visual notes and teaching some basic concepts permenantly. Besides this, it can be used to determin the misconceptions of students. At the present time, one of the most important aim of Social Studies education is to educate knowledgeable, skillful active citizens for society. In this context like many other countries, in our contry it is discussing wheter the social studies lessons educate enough or not the students about citizenship information concepts. The aim of this study is to determine the misconceptions about citizenship knowledge concepts of the 5th grade students with mind mapping tecnique. The working group involve 32 students. In the study, students made mind maps about 4 title which contains “Right”, “Responsibility”, “Culture and National Culture”, “Ataturk Principles and Reforms”. After that, interviewed with students about these mind maps. Results showed that some students had misconceptions about citizenship knowledge. The most important reason is citizenship knowledge contains abstract concepts. It can be understand from this study that students have difficulties to learn abstract concepts in social sstudies lessons.

Keywords

Social Studies, Misconceptions, Mind Maps, Citizenship Knowledge

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