Publications

Support of Migrants in Science Education

Tanja Tajmel, Klaus Starl

Humboldt University

Istanbul, 2005

Report

English

English

Integration of immigrants students

This project coming from the aim of the improvements on Science course is carried out with 6 participants from 4 countries. The aim of this project is to encourage the students in selecting their career with the help of co-operation. The main group aimed at this project is the immigrant children. Achieving the goal of this project is tried with 3 kinds of activities.
1- Supporting immigrant girls by using the clubs which are built by universities. In this way, it is aimed that the immigrant girls are supported in selecting career in a more conscious and self-confident manner.
2- It is aimed to improve new methods and applications in Science by considering the students’ cultural development and language diversity with the help of the teams which consists of professional people.
3- institutionalizing the teachers working with immigrant students So, it is shown that different methods and standards in Science education in different countries have become appropriate.

In this research it is tried to support student by giving specific tasks to every country, which carried out via different countries’ taking part. In this research when some factors such as that In this tasks, showing that the children learned the language of the country more effectively where they went is the most factor behind their success, focusing on giving away the applications on the tasks and sharing them and their views and by the means of scientific approaches the teachers should improve their experiences, it encourages the students to attend scientific classes, the teachers’ science teaching, raising the awareness of how the girls are in the science course, solving the problems with the helping of solving ways, it can be said that a successful research is shown.

Mustafa Bayrakcı

Kırıkkale University

Researcher