Abstract:

The study was conducted to determine the views of children 60-72 months of age about what they want to do as a scientist. Research is an illustrative study based on quality analysis. The study’s work group, in the 2017-2018 educational year, consisted of 46 children who continued to their independent kindergartens connected to the Ministry of Education in the center of the province of Ankara. The data of the study was collected by the analysis of the verbal expressions they use in the pictures they draw on their opinions about what children want to do as a scientist. Imaginary analysis assessed the views of children about what they wanted to do as a scientist through the paintings they drawn. The study found 73 statements about what pre-school children want to do as a scientist and 7 topics taking into account the common characteristics of these statements. It has been found that what children want to do for a variety of purposes as scientists is more focused on the device subject and that the concept of the robot subject is also used more frequently than other concepts.     It was also found that children performed what they wanted to do as a scientist based on a variety of reasons, 82 statements on these reasons and, taking into account the common characteristics of these statements, 5 subjects were included. More than these subjects have been determined to make explanations about the causes of the children in the direction of "to provide the possibility of discovery".

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