Abstract
A New Turkish Physics Curriculum has been constructed between the years 2006-2009. It is to the gaining of new perspectives. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to reflect on the nature of the New Turkish Physics Curriculum (NTPC). To this end, the authors focus on the five themes of the NTPC using a document analysis method: basic reasons and needs of the NTPC, fundamental approaches of the NTPC, learning areas of the NTPC, characteristics of teaching activities in terms of the NTPC, needs of the NTPC. This paper highlights thus focusses on the fundamentals of the NTPC and considerations of its easy adaptation into practice.
Highlights
Physics through its experimental nature enables ways of thinking about real world phenomena and is in continual development
A New Turkish Physics Curriculum has been constructed between the years 2006-2009
It is clear that since reflections of physics occur in our social life and the growing importance of physics is significantly different from past decades, persons need to understand a degree of specialized physics knowledge to function in today’s world
Summary
Physics through its experimental nature enables ways of thinking about real world phenomena and is in continual development. Once several countries recognized the importance of updating or reconstructing their physics curriculum in terms of worldwide trends and development in technical and scientific areas, evaluation studies related to the effectiveness of the revision, the suitability of the objectives, the appropriateness of the principles on new curricula are based or obstacles faced in their applications have taken place. Examples are, those by Hu (2007), Fernandez (2007), Mumba et al (2007) and Mirzoyan and Mirzoyan (2008). The authors asked the following research questions: 1. What are the basic reasons for changing in the physics curriculum in Turkey?
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