The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Realistic Mathematics Education and 6th grade algebra instruction on students’ academic achievement and permanence. In the research, quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest experimental and control groups was used. The study was conducted with 44 sixth grade students, 20 of whom were experimental group and 24 of whom were control group, in two state secondary schools in Bursa. The sample of the study was created using the cluster random sampling method. The lessons are carried out in the experimental group in the field of “Algebra” with the Realistic Mathematics Education approach; In the control group, the current teaching method included in the Ministry of National Education Primary Education Mathematics Course Curriculum was continued. In the study, the Achievement Test was applied to the experimental and control groups as a pre-test, post-test and retention test. Obtained and normally distributed data were analyzed by t test. It was observed that there was no significant difference between the pre-test scores of the experimental and control groups before the application. According to the findings obtained from the study, the academic achievement levels of the experimental group students were found to be statistically significantly
effective in the post-test and retention tests compared to the control group students. In this context, it is recommended to use activities suitable for Realistic Mathematics Education in algebra teaching.

Keywords: Realistic mathematics education; Academic success; Algebra; Success; Permanence.

This study aimed to determine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of organizational culture and their perceptions of political tactics. The sample of the study consists of 512 teachers. The research data were collected by the Organizational Culture Scale and the Political Tactics Scale. This study used the t Test for paired comparisons between variables, one-way ANOVA for three or more comparisons, and the Pearson Correlation Test to reveal the relationship. The research findings showed that teachers mostly use impression management, coalition building, networking, ingratiating, increasing indispensability, scapegoating, and information management. While teachers' views on perceived political tactics did not differ significantly by gender, significant differences emerged in occupational and organizational seniority variables. Also, teachers mostly perceive task culture, support culture, success culture, and bureaucratic culture, respectively, in schools. While there were no significant differences in organizational seniority and gender variables, there were significant differences in the professional seniority variable. The research found meaningful relationships in a positive direction at the low and mid-level between political tactics, bureaucratic culture, and task culture.

Keywords: Organizational culture; Political behavior; Political tactics; School culture; Teachers

The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of civil servant employees with

disabilities on their professional context of the study, main research aims/questions.

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 participants. In the study, a voice

recorder was used to record answers to questions in the interview form, information

form, and questions in the information form for collecting data. The researcher developed

an information form to acquire demographic information on the participants,

including gender, disability type and experience. Descriptive techniques were used

to analyze their opinions. The three major themes of the current study emerged during

the interviews with the participants. The results are presented in relation to the aims

of the study under three central themes: views about the working environment, perspectives

of the profession, and environmental perspectives of individual with disabilities

and professions. Participants stated that they have work overload, needs of

improvement on physical conditions, are not employed according to their education

and disability, and encounter negative attitude from colleagues and managers. It is

recommended that future studies compare the private and public sectors as well as

examine the differences between working as a laborer in the civil service and as a

covenanted employee. It is also recommended that gender equality be examined

among employees who have disabilities.

Keywords: Individuals with disability; Civil servant employees; Education; Working

experience; Profession.

Science centers are one of the most common examples of informal learning environments. Science center exhibitions designed with specific learning goals facilitate students’ science learning. The effect of utilizing nanotechnology exhibitions, which displayed in the New Horizons exhibition gallery introducing new technologies in a science center located at the central Anatolia, accompanied with the related activities on students’ understanding of the nanotechnology concepts was investigated. Three activities were designed to enhance the knowledge of 109 participating 5^th, 6^th and 7^th grade students, on nanoscience and nanotechnology. In this study, one of these activities was used. Predict-Observe-Explain (POE), which is one of the teaching techniques that make students active and prioritizes conceptual teaching through inquiry, was adopted in this study. In this qualitative study, case study method was adopted and the data were coded to form meaningful categories through thematic analysis. According to the findings of the study, it was observed that after completing the POE activities integrated with the nanotechnology exhibitions, most of the students, demonstrated a transition from conceptualization at the macroscopic level to the conceptualization at the particle level. Therefore, it can be recommended to organize inquiry activities in which science center exhibitions are involved in order to improve understanding of nanotechnology, at a younger age in our country.

Keywords: Informal education; Science center; Exhibition; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology.

This study aimed to determine grandparents’ views about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their relations with their grandchildren who have grandchildren with ASD. The research was conducted using the phenomenological research design, one of the qualitative research methods. The research participants were ten grandparents who lived in a district in Konya and had a grandchild with ASD. Data were collected using the Participant Information Form and 14 semi-structured interview questions created by the researcher. The findings show that grandparents notice the signs of ASD earlier than the parents, experience similar feelings with parents of the child with ASD, provide financial and moral support to their children, and hope that their grandchildren will recover. In addition, grandparents talked positively about their grandchildren’s education and stated that they expected their grandchildren to become independent individuals. Based on the data of this research, it can be suggested to raise awareness by giving seminars about ASD and providing psychological support to grandparents whose grandchildren have ASD.

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Grandparents, Grandchildren with ASD.

In this study, it was aimed to determine the opinions of school principals in early childhood education in terms of their perception about access to education, participation in education and support to education within the scope of inclusive education, about the practices they carry out in their organizations and about what kind of other studies to be done. It was designed as a phenomenological study, a qualitative research methodology, as it aimed at an in-depth examination of the views of school principals. The study group consisted of 10 kindergarten principals working in Gaziantep city centre. Semi-structured open-ended interview protocol was used to collect data. The
research data were analysed using content and descriptive analysis methods. As a result of the study, it was concluded that school principals had a general perspective on access to education, participation in education and support to education, which are the components of inclusive early childhood education, and they had some practices in their organizations either planned or unplanned. Furthermore, school principals pointed out the limitations of schools regarding inclusive education and a great many areas to be improved to enhance them.

Keywords: Inclusive education; Early childhood; Pre-school.

This study aimed to adapt the Schadenfreude Scale to Turkish and examine the psychometric properties. The Schadenfreude Scale, Dark Triad Scale and Empathy Level Determination Scale were administered to the study groups. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis results confirmed the four-factor structure of the instrument with satisfactory reliability. In the adaptation study of the scale, two different samples were studied. First of all, a sample of 410 people was used for exploratory factor analysis. In the later confirmatory factor analysis study, data were collected from 179 people. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that all of the goodness-of-fit values showed good fit [ꭓ2/sd=1.502, GFI=.940, AGFI=.900, SRMR=.061, CFI=.910, TLI=.873, RMSEA=.053]. The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of the scale was found to be .61. There was a statistically significant and positive correlation between Schadenfreude and machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism sub-dimensions of the Dark Triad and a negative relationship between empathy and Schadenfreude. The findings showed that the Turkish version of the scale was a valid and reliable tool for Turkish culture.

Keywords: Schadenfreude; Misfortune; Empathy; Malicious joy; Scale adaptation.

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate teachers’ views on conflict resolution strategies applied by primary school administrators in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. As a method for the study, phenomenology was used which is one of the qualitative research methods. While creating the study group, snowball sampling also known as chain referral sampling method was used. The research was obtained by using open-ended and semi-structured questions used for online interviews to convey the relevant literature by scanning. The research was obtained from 25 primary school teachers who volunteered for online interviews. As a result of the research, all of the teachers stated that there were conflicts in primary schools. It can be stated that the answers given regarding the causes of conflict are evaluated under structural factors, personal factors and other sub-themes. The responses given about the conflict resolution strategies implemented by the managers; emerged under the sub-themes of avoidance, domination, integration, compromise and reconciliation. The teachers stated that the administrators generally apply avoidance and domination methods which are not helpful. Based on these findings, in terms of obtaining positive results by applying more powerful conflict resolution strategies, it may be suggested that primary school administrators may refer to effective communication methods
and receive in-service training to improve themselves.

Keywords: Conflict; Education; Primary schools; Management; Manager.

Educators use many interventions and strategies applied in decreasing problem behaviors. However, positive hierarchy should be considered while intervening problem behaviors and preventive approach and re-inforcement based strategies should be prioritized. One of these positive interventions is noncontingent reinforcement. Even though noncontin-gent reinforcement has been a popular topic in international literature, there is a huge gap in the topic in Turkish. Considering this need, the researchers in this study aimed to provide information about implemen-tation steps of noncontingent reinforcement and to utilize descriptive analysis of single subject research examined effectiveness of noncon-tingent reinforcement. The researchers reached 62 studies published be-tween 2015 and 2020 in total and 20 studies included in further analysis according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results of the analysis demonstrated that noncontingent reinforcement is an effective proce-dure in decreasing problem behaviors, but, there is need for future re-search to enrich the noncontingent reinforcement literature especially in natural settings.

Keywords: Noncontingent reinforcement; Problem behavior; Develop-mental disability; Functions of behavior.

The aim of this research is to reveal the difference in approach towards the image of women in textbooks of two countries. The analysis was carried out in the Life Sciences textbooks taught in Türkiye and The
World Around Us textbooks taught in Russia in primary school in the 2021-2022 academic year. In this direction, the frequency of showing adult women and men in the visual elements in the relevant textbooks, the occupations of male and female figures and the actions in which they are presented were examined. Therefore, qualitative research method was used in the study. The data of the research was obtained through document analysis. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive analysis method. The results show that the rate of women being shown in textbooks taught in Türkiye is higher than that of men. Moreover, women are portrayed in high-status professions. Despite this, some occupations are associated only with men. There are few examples of the division of labor between men and women. In textbook taught in Russia, the rate of women being shown is less than that of men. Occupational diversity of women is also less than that of men. Women are more associated with housework. As a result, it can be said that the presentation of the image of women in terms of gender representations in the textbooks is more successful in the textbooks in Turkey than in textbooks in Russia. However, the textbooks of both countries cannot be said in accordance with the gender equality. In this context, it can be suggested that in the textbooks should be approached in an equal way in the representation of occupational groups and more examples of successful women should be included.

Keywords: Social studies; Textbook; Gender; Gender equality; Primary school.

In this study, the aim was to examine foreign language teachers’ commitment levels to the curriculum working in formal primary and secondary education institutions during Covid-19 pandemic period. With this general purpose, foreign language teachers’ level of commitment to the curriculum was compared in terms of different variables (gender, type of school they graduated from, teaching level, year of experience). In this respect, this study is descriptive research in the scanning model. The study was carried out with the participation of 92 foreign language teachers working in primary and secondary education in a city center located in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey in the 2020-2021 academic year. In the study, the ‘personal information form’ developed by the researchers and the ‘Curriculum Commitment Scale’ developed by Yaşaroğlu and Manav (2015), was employed as data collection tools. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic deviation in data analysis; t Test for Independent Groups were used to compare the means of two groups, and One-way Analysis of variance was used to compare the means of more than two groups. As a result it was concluded that the commitment level of foreign language teachers to the curriculum is high and there is no significant difference in the level of commitment to curriculum according to their demographic characteristics.

Keywords: Covid-19; Pandemic; Curriculum; Commitment to the curriculum; Foreign language teachers.

In this study, it is aimed to examine the efficiency of psychological counseling with a group based on Narrative Therapy on anger and anger expression styles adolescents. The study is a mixed-method study. The participants of the study were selected by purposeful sampling method. According to the findings of the study, it was concluded that psychological
counseling with a group based on Narrative Therapy had a significant effect on the scores they got from trait anger, anger-in, angerout
and anger control sub-dimensions. According to the qualitative findings of the study, it was observed that adolescents had help and confidentiality expectations regarding group counseling assistance, and
their purposes of participating in group counseling were to be able to control anger, to be a calm person, to be able to solve problems in interpersonal
relations, to be able to treat people and to be a good person. It was observed that adolescents used the methods of staying silent, applying
calming rituals, applying artistic/sporting activities, crying, being alone, thinking, directing anger out, directing anger to the body before group experience to control their sense of anger and they think they control their anger when their eyes are full, when they direct the anger out, when they are calm, when they are happy and when they can think
healthy. On the other hand, it was seen that adolescents consider group experience as beneficial, meeting expectations, learning anger control and a calming experience and after the group experience, they reevaluated their past lives, gained a different perspective against anger, gained problem solving skills, healthy communication skills and awareness. In addition, it was concluded that adolescents used calming activities,communication skills and problem-solving skills to control anger.

Keywords: Adolescent; Narrative therapy; Group counseling; Anger; Anger expression

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between high school students’ biology course achievement goal orientations and approaches to learning biology. This study, carried out in the correlational scanning model, was conducted with the participation of a total of 323 high school students. In the research, “Achievement Goal Orientation Scale” adapted into Turkish by Şenler and Sungur (2007) and “Approaches to Learning Biology Scale” adapted into Turkish by Taşkın (2012) were used. Descriptive statistics (Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation) were used in the analysis of the data obtained. In addition to descriptive statistics, Spearman Brown Rank Differences Correlations were used to determine the relationships between students’ biology course achievement goal orientations and approaches to learning biology. As a result of the research, it is found that the students obtained the lowest average score from the “Surface Strategy” subscale, and the highest average score from the “Deep Strategy” subscale. It has been determined that high school students’ surface and deep motivations are at a positive level and close to each other. It is observed that the students obtained the lowest average score from the “Learning-Avoidance Goals” subdimension, and the highest average score from the “Learning-Approach Goals” subdimension. In addition, it was determined that the students’ “Performance-Approach Goals” subdimension scores were higher than the “Performance-Avoidance Goals” subdimension scores. Moreover, it was concluded that there were statistically significant relationships between students’ approaches to learning biology and biology course achievement goal orientations.
Keywords: Achievement goal orientation; Approaches to learning biology; High school students; Internal motivation; External motivation.

Every individual in the society should be able to use advanced technologies and benefit in a way to increase the quality of life. In this sense, it is expected that the education system will transform in accordance with 21-century skills and transformation occurred in the society, industry, digital area as well as train students. Therefore, the reflection of industrial, digital and social transformations on education emerges as an important issue. As known or predicted, the concepts of transformation in industrial, digital, social and education, in a sense, phenomena, affect each other by the cause-effect relationship and vice versa. For this reason, it is important to consider and explain the concepts of industrial, digital and social transformation and the reflection of these transformations in education as a whole. This study was carried out in order to explain the reflection of industrial, digital and social transformation on education with a general overview. Within the scope of the study, the characteristics of the transformations experienced in the industry, digital and society were included and the reflection of these transformations in education was explained. In this study, it is tried to explain the concepts that come into our lives with the transformation in the fields of industry, digital, social and education, and the transformation processes in the education system in the light of these transformations.

Keywords: Industrial transformation; Digital transformation; Social transformation; Education

After the first case was seen in Wuhan, China, the Covid-19 has begun to spread worldwide at an enormous speed. Education started to migrate to digital technology tools, and the problem of starting online education gave birth to many problems in all countries, including Turkey. There are almost 25 million students affected by the Covid-19 at all levels in Turkey. This study aims to profile academics’ experiences during the adaptation process of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, semi-structured interviews are conducted with eight academics from İstanbul to get in-depth information about the issue. As a result of the data analysis, four themes emerged as competencies, transition, interaction, and influencing factors. Theme named competencies has two codes: technological competencies and academic competencies, theme named interaction has two codes: personal issues and professional issues. A theme called influencing factors has two codes as personal factors and professional factors.

Keywords: Distance learning; Pandemic; Covid-19; Academic; Qualitative research.