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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS SBE 2001 SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING AND TEACHING APPROACHES COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Social Studies Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BANU ÇULHA ÖZBAŞ

Offered to

Social Studies Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to have information about important social studies learning/teaching theories, approaches and be able to evaluate them

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to know some key concepts of learning 2   Be able to know some theories and approaches which are important in social studies learning 3   Be able to evaluate the learning theories and approaches weaknesses 4   Be able to evaluate the learning theories and approaches strengths

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Historical developments of learning approaches in social studies education 2 Constructivism (basic concepts) 3 Cognitive constructivism 4 Socio-cultural constructivism 5 Radical constructivism 6 Investigation of some researchers learning theories in social studies education (Piaget) 7 Investigation of some researchers learning theories in social studies education (Vygotsky) 8 General revision of the course, midterm exam 9 Investigation of some researchers learning theories in social studies education (Dewey) 10 Investigation of some researchers learning theories in social studies education (Bruner, VanSledright, Thornton) 11 Some important key concepts in learning social studies (scaffolding) 12 Some important key concepts in learning social studies (meta-cognition) 13 Some important key concepts in learning social studies (self-regulation). 14 Searching some articles on learning social studies 15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Zarillo, James. Teaching Elementary Social Studies, Principles and Applications. Pearson Education Inc. (2008) Safran, Mustafa ( Ed). Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi. Pegem-A Yayınları, (2009)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussing, question-answer, demostration, lecturing, excursion, observation, cooperative learning

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE Midterm Exam 2 DTK Other Activity 3 FN Semester final exam 4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60 5 BUT Make- up note 6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 13 2 26 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26 Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10 Preparation for final exam 1 12 12 Preparing presentations 1 5 5 Final 1 2 2 Midterm 1 2 2 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 83

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 PO.14 LO.1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 LO.2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 LO.3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 LO.4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5