Comparative study of Turkey and Germany Life Science teaching programs

Abstract

Comparative education studies within the perspective of globalization are seen as important studies, as they reveal the problems in education and show defective aspects of the systems applied in other countries. This way they improve the available system. The purpose of this research is to study the current curriculum of Life Science lesson within the context of four main elements comparatively. The Life Science lesson, which is assessed in the Social Studies course in many countries, is taught in Germany in a similar way as the content in Turkey. Therefore, Germany was chosen as the country for compararison. The study is a qualitative study and the data was analyzed by document review method. Document review is the examination of a text by the researcher according to various criteria. In other words, it collects records and documents related to a study and encode and analyze them according to a certain norm and system. The research is limited to the analysis of the current curriculum of the Life Science lessons in Turkey and Germany. The results obtained in the research will support the understanding of the Life Science Education Program in Turkey and contribute to the new studies to be carried out.

Comparison of Türkiye and Azerbaijan Primary School Life Science Curriculum

“…In the literature, it has been determined that there are studies comparing the Life Science Curriculum between Türkiye and Germany (Baysal et al, 2018;Canbulat, 2018;Tekgöz, 2017), studies comparing the technological competencies of the curricula (Keskin, 2017), and studies comparing the Life Science Curriculum in Türkiye with the Russian "The World Around Us" Curriculum (Ütkür Güllühan & Guseinova, 2021). However, no research comparing the Life Science Curriculum in Türkiye and Azerbaijan has been found.…”