Syrian Children in The Turkish Press: Education and Integration

Abstract

Purpose: Scientific literacy plays an important role in catalyzing science learning in the 21 st century. Unfortunately, previous evidence revealed that students' scientific literacy tends to be unsatisfactory. This study investigated the effect of ethnosciencethemed picture books embedded in context-based learning (EthCBL) on students' scientific literacy. Methods: In this quasi-experimental research, 58 (35 girls and 23 boys) fifth-grade students in a public elementary school in Indonesia were selected using purposive sampling. Twenty-nine students (19 girls and 10 boys) were assigned as an experimental group and 29 students (16 girls and 13 boys) were assigned as a control group.