Turkish Students’ Images of Scientists

Toğrol, Ayşenur Yontar

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“…It is seen that the students are unaware of the examples of many scientists who worked for a long time in the monastery garden like Mendel, on the farm like Newton, and on a research ship like Darwin (Doğan et al, 2009). One of the important findings determined in this study is that the delusion of perceiving the scientist as a male, which has been dominant for the last 15-20 years, still continues (Buldu, 2006;Demirbaş, 2009;Gheith and Aljaberi, 2019;Nuhoğlu & Afacan, 2011;Oğuz-Ünver, 2010;Toğrol, 2000). In this study, some students even answered the question about the gender of the scientist as "of course male".…”

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confidence: 61%

“…When the images of the scientist's working environment are examined; while 46% of the students stated that scientists work in the laboratory. Based on these results, according to the literature about the scientists working in the laboratory (Blagdanic, Kadijevic, and Kovacevic, 2019;Gheith and Aljaberi, 2019;Kaya, Doğan and Öcal, 2008;Korkmaz, Hünkar;Kavak, 2010;Toğrol, 2000), we can say that it still has stereotyped images. It is seen that the students are unaware of the examples of many scientists who worked for a long time in the monastery garden like Mendel, on the farm like Newton, and on a research ship like Darwin (Doğan et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Research on images of scientists and science among students have been done mostly in the USA and Europe. Toğrol's (2000) study is one of the earlier research on the images of Turkish students about scientists. After this study, many studies were carried out on different samples (Baday, 2019;Baybars, 2018;Buldu, 2006;Çakıcı, 2018;Çermik, 2013;Demirbaş, 2009;Küçük ve Bağ 2016;Özdeş ve Aslan, 2019;Özgelen, 2012;Toğrol, 2013;Türkmen, 2008).…”

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Primary School Students' Images of Scientists and the Sources of These Images

Aygun,

Celik

2022

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The aim of this study is to determine the 4th-grade students' images of the scientists and the relations between these images and the images of scientists that primary school teachers describe in their classes and the images presented in the 4th-grade textbooks. The sample of the study consisted of 244 4thgrade students, 10 teachers, and 4th grade science and social studies textbooks. The study was designed according to the case study design, which is one of the qualitative research designs. As a result of the study, it has been determined that the students have stereotypical images about gender, age, working environment, and the works of the scientists. While it was determined that 85% of the students draw male scientists. However, contrary to the results commonly seen in the literature, the image of a scientist with a lab coat is found to be at a lower level in this study. In addition, the results obtained in the interviews with the teachers and textbooks examined revealed that there are similarities between these images that the students have and the images that the teachers have taught and the images presented in the textbooks.

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confidence: 61%

Section: Conclusion Discussion and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 77%

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confidence: 99%

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2022

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“…This fits in with previous studies. 25 , 26 , 30 , 32 , 40 Such a masculine stereotype of the environmental scientist may dismiss female individuals’ intention for an environment-related career.…”

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Image of the environmental scientist

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The environmental scientist has been playing an important role in preventing and mitigating environmental pollution. Individuals’ images of the environmental scientist will likely impact and meditate their interest and attitudes toward environmental science as well as their willingness to take up an environmental science profession. However, prior studies focusing on the image of a professional are primarily of the general scientist. The environmental scientist and the image thereof remains out of the limelight of environmental science community and has been under-researched. In this article, on the basis of the retrospect on the stereotypical images of the general and environmental scientist and the gaps in previous studies, we attempted to report young individuals’ images of the environmental scientist in an alternative context. Drawing technique was employed and administered to 127 junior students aged from 13 to 15 year-old from a junior high school. The individuals’ image of environmental scientists can be generally abstracted as a male with environmental protection knowledge and commitment to environmental protection who does work more like a green chemist, ecology restorer, or plant protector and observes or cleans outdoors, primarily in forest, jungle, and/or by riverside.

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“…Bu bilgiler ışığında görsellerde yer alan bilim insanları cinsiyet açısından basmakalıp erkek bilim insanı imajını destekler nitelik taşımaktadır. Nitekim Ruiz-Mallen ve Escales (2012);Toğrol (2013);Karaçam ve arkadaşları (2014);Bayram (2018);Duran ve Bayar (2019) tarafından yapılan çalışmalarda kalıplaşmış erkek bilim insanı algısının zihinlere yer edindiği görülmektedir. Bu imajın oluşmasında öğretmenler, ders kitapları, televizyon ve medya gibi araçlar etkili olmaktadır…”

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Identification of the Perception of Scientists Presented in Online News Websites

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KÜÇÜK,

ADIGÜZEL ULUTAŞ

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Iğdır Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Bu çalışma kapsamında da çevrim içi haber sitelerinde sunulan haberler üzerinden medyada oluşturulan bilim insanı algısının değerlendirilmesi hedeflenmiştir. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden doküman analizi kullanılmıştır. Çevrim içi haber sitelerinden tirajı yüksek ve 2015 - 2019 yıllarına ait arşivlerine erişilebilir olan beş çevrim içi haber sitesi araştırma kapsamına dâhil edilmiştir. Araştırmanın birinci kısmında çevrim içi haber sitelerindeki bilim insanı ile ilgili olan haberler yayımlanma tarihi ve türü, bilim insanının ismi, cinsiyeti, çalışma disiplini, unvanı, çalıştığı kurumu ve görseli şeklinde kategorilerde değerlendirilmiştir. İkinci kısmında ise bilim insanlarının yer aldığı görseller basmakalıp bilim insanı özelliklerinin (genellikle erkek, gözlüklü, sakal ve/veya bıyıklı, kapalı alanda yalnız çalışan vb.) var olup olmamasına göre incelenerek analizi yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda çevrim içi haber sitelerinde üniversitede tıp alanında çalışmalar yapan profesör unvanına sahip erkek bilim insanlarının sıklıkla yer aldığı görülmektedir. Ayrıca bilim insanları ile ilgili sunulan haberlerin genel anlamda bilimsel içerikli bir dil yapısına sahip olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bununla birlikte çalışmanın ikinci kısmında elde edilen sonuçlar görsellerde yer alan bilim insanlarının önlük, sakal, saç ve semboller bakımından basmakalıp bilim insanı özelliklerinin tersi özelliklere sahip olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu veriler ışığında çevrim içi haber sitelerinde bilim insanlarının önlüksüz, sakalsız, düzgün saç görünümüne sahip, bilgi, teknoloji ve araştırma sembollerini pek kullanmayan, güler yüzlü, kapalı mekânda yalnız çalışan erkek olarak tasvir edildiği söylenebilir.

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Turkish Students’ Images of Scientists

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

Primary School Students' Images of Scientists and the Sources of These Images

Primary School Students' Images of Scientists and the Sources of These Images

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Identification of the Perception of Scientists Presented in Online News Websites

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