|
Gifted
students’ opinions about “earthquake": A qualitative study
Fatih
Aydin* and Mücahit Coskun
Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, Karabük
University, 78050 Karabük, Turkey.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
fatihaydin@karabuk.edu.tr.
Accepted 21 March, 2011. |
|
This study was carried out to put forth gifted students’
perspectives towards “earthquake” concept. A total of 156
primary school students participated in the research in
Ankara BİLSEM schools in 2010-2011 academic year. The data
of the research was gathered by completing “The earthquake
means….. “, or I consider earthquake as …….” statement. In
the analysis and interpretation of the data, content
analysis technique was used. As a result, the majority of
the gifted students stated earthquake as: “quakes due to the
movements of earth crust”, “destruction”, “loss of property
and life”, “natural disaster”, “death” and “calamity”.
According to the results of the research, the following
suggestions were offered: 1) developing and spreading
natural hazards education at gifted students’ institutions
should be handled seriously. 2) Educational programs should
be prepared in order to build environmental conscious via
social communicational tools. 3) Gifted students should be
given opportunities in the projects towards educational
programs in relation with earthquakes, in other words,
natural hazards.
Key words:
Gifted children, earthquake, earthquake education, geography
teaching. |
