Exploring Pre-service primary school teachers' informal reasoning and argumentation levels on a socio-scientific issue: The issue of transgenic plants in the agriculture

Evrim Ural & Orhan Ercan

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Original article | International Journal of Research in Teacher Education 2020, Vol. 11(3) 48-66

Exploring Pre-service primary school teachers' informal reasoning and argumentation levels on a socio-scientific issue: The issue of transgenic plants in the agriculture

Evrim Ural & Orhan Ercan

pp. 48 - 66 | Manu. Number: MANU-2001-29-0002

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Abstract

The study aims to investigate pre-service primary school teachers’ decision making modes, informal reasoning modes and argumentation levels on a socio scientific issue. The issue of transgenic plants was chosen as s socio-scientific issue. In the content of the study, the case study method which is one of qualitative research methods was used to investigate pre-service primary school teachers’ decision-making modes, informal reasoning and argumentation levels. The participants of this study were 38 pre-service primary school teachers attending the faculty of education in a government university. The findings of the study shows 4 different results. The first one is that the participants make decisions on a socio-scientific subject they may come across with in daily life based more on intuition rather than in an evidence-based manner. The second result is that the argumentation levels are low. The third important result is that the participants think in a one-dimensional manner on a subject they need to approach in a multi-dimensional manner. The fourth important result is that the participants experienced applying the knowledge they obtain in their lessons to events they came across with in daily life.

Keywords: Socio-sicentific issue, transgenic plants, pre-service primary teachers, informal reasoning, argumentation

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Ural, E. & Ercan, O. (2020). Exploring Pre-service primary school teachers' informal reasoning and argumentation levels on a socio-scientific issue: The issue of transgenic plants in the agriculture . International Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 11(3), 48-66.

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Ural, E. and Ercan, O. (2020). Exploring Pre-service primary school teachers' informal reasoning and argumentation levels on a socio-scientific issue: The issue of transgenic plants in the agriculture . International Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 11(3), pp. 48-66.

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Ural, Evrim and Orhan Ercan (2020). "Exploring Pre-service primary school teachers' informal reasoning and argumentation levels on a socio-scientific issue: The issue of transgenic plants in the agriculture ". International Journal of Research in Teacher Education 11 (3):48-66.

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