Historical Imagination Skills of Preschool Children as Reflected in TheirClay Works
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Prof. Dr. Kibar AKTIN Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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(Uluslararası alan indekslerindeki dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale)
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| Dergi Adı | International Online Journal of Educational Sciences | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1309-2707 | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | H.W. Wilson | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 01-2019 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 11 / 3 / 87–104 | DOI | – |
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| This study was carried out to determine how preschool children worked their imagination skills in historical thinking processes and how they constructed the past in this way. This qualitative study was designed as a case study. The research was conducted in the spring term of the school year of 2015-2016. The study group of the research consisted of 12 children in the age group of five and six studying in a kindergarten in central Sinop, Turkey. The participants of this study were selected using convenience and criterion sampling of the purposive sampling method. The data of this study were derived from the products that children modelled with clay, the records of unstructured interview conducted with children and the participant observer notes of the researcher. Within the scope of the qualitative research method, the clay products that formed the data of the research were analysed descriptively within the frame of research questions, based on Fines's historical imagination category, and by being supported with interview results and participant observer notes. As for the results of the research, children were observed to model with clay such objects as forks, spoons, dishes, fewer cooking cauldrons, egg pans and egg the most from among sociocultural elements that represented the past. The products that children modelled with clay were objects which they experienced generally in their daily lives and/or during museum activities. It was evident that the children presented these objects in a narrative compatible with the historical context in accordance with the actual intended uses of them rather than as fantastic elements in an imaginative fiction … |
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