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While such traditional approaches have dominated mainstream chemistry classrooms throughout the last 20 years, an alternative approach to chemistry teaching has emerged in a minority of classrooms during this time. These pedagogical approaches fall under the umbrella of 'context-based' teaching and have been trialled in an attempt to make the learning of chemistry meaningful for students by situating the learning in students' realworlds. Every day, more studies focus on teaching models, methods and strategies shaped around active learning-based approaches. One of the teaching methods promoting active participation of students in their learning processes is the "Context-based Learning Model". The research aims to analyse the effects of the chemistry experiments, which have been prepared according to context-based learning, on the daily life chemistry attitudes of preservice chemistry teachers. The sampling of the study consisted of 17 preservice chemistry teachers studying at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education.This is a two-dimensional research study where qualitative and quantitative research methods are used together.The effects of designed experiments and materials on preservice chemistry teachers' attitudes towards everyday life chemistry will be examined. The study was participated by 17 preservice chemistry teachers studying at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education. This study was conducted using the pre-posttest design involving a treatment group. The treatment group was taught within the context-based teaching model. The scores obtained by participating groups from The Attitudes towards Chemistry Scale (Koçak, 2014).

The selection of a particular syllabus design; what to teach and in which order, would inadvertently reflect the beliefs and values on 'language' and 'language learning' as the types of syllabus are also manifestations of how the nature of language and language learning viewed. While most Freshman English Programs seem to reflect the common practices of 'compartmentalized' nature of the Turkish education system where students are divided into science and social majors and receive ESP or EAP, a pioneering Freshman English Program at Istanbul Sehir University has been integrating literary texts; short stories and novels in an attempt to transform the idea of 'language as a rule-based system' into 'language as a socio-semantic system'. This paper will present a brief overview of the initial stage of this pioneering thematic content based syllabus put in action in 2015-2016 academic year sharing the underlying reasons behind the course design and the challenges faced in the attempts of aiming to build on cultural competence, language and critical thinking skills with a communicative approach helping students to respond to the demands of a tertiary education at their best abilities.

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Huseyn Javid's works creating a complete impression about his views of being, mind, his attitude to life reveal his thoughts about society and person. When speaking about the existence with God, relations between a person and God in the thinker's creation it is more expedient to pay attention to his verses. When choosing any theme the poet tried to present sound logical results dealt with a person, spirituality, society and he succeeded. The great master knowing the Islamic notions dealt with creation of man and his position very well realised that the humanity's tragedy is greediness that can't be ruled and looked for salvation in real love. From this standpoint his verse "Hubuti Adam" (Fallen Adam) attracts special attention. Adam, a man who harmed the highest love was held away from paradise, his beauty was taken away from him, too. Emphasizing Adam's yellow face Huseyn Javid is deeply impressed. According to the mythical thought yellow colour is considered to be a symbol of separation. In "Hubuti-Adam" Adam and Eve were informed about their exile from the paradise and overthrow on the Earth by the beautiful Fairy by order of God. From Fairy's words turn out that Adam's descendants' life on the earth won't be pure like the flowing water at all. Describing the first prophet's careless days in Edem in his verse "Hubuti-Adam" H.Javid tells about story happened before Adam's lowering on the earth. The poet tells about hard, fatal human life in this world by Fairy's words. He thinks that the only salvation is not to be a slave of insatiability and is mental purity. Evidently H.Javid appealing to the Koran story expresses his ideas about the society and person. Presenting the important human idea he uses expressive words caused by his, artistic imagination and theosophy as means of artistic self-expression.