期刊名称：Review of International Geographical Education Online
电子版ISSN：2146-0353
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：193-208
DOI：10.33403/rigeo.511574
语种：English
出版社：Review of International Geographical Education Online
摘要：With the help of the Word Association Test (WAT),the present study aimed to reveal elementary school fourth grade students’cognitive structures regarding the values to be taught in relation to thelearning areas within the scope of the course of Social Studies. The participantsin the study were elementary school fourth grade students. In the researchprocess, seven values such as respect, tolerance, love, responsibility,solidarity, benevolence and patriotism, which were all determined as the valuesto be taught to the students within the scope of the curriculum of theelementary school fourth grade course of Social Studies, were presented to thestudents at the end of the teaching process. The students were asked to writedown the words that they associated at once with the seven key concepts in 1-minute.The data collected were recorded in a table of frequencies including the keyconcepts and words, and in the light of the data in this frequency table, mindmaps showing the students’ cognitive structures were formed. The resultsobtained via the examination of the connections and associations between thewords and the key concepts in these mental maps demonstrated that the studentsproduced the most words regarding the values of respect and tolerance and theleast words regarding the value of solidarity. In addition, the students with acut-off point of 50 or higher were found to associate the values of love,respect and tolerance with each other and the value of responsibility with thewords of job-duty. When the statements written down by the students in relationto the values were examined, it was seen that almost all of the students madesentences which included non-scientific and superficial information.
关键词：Word Association Test;Social Studies;Elementary School;Value Education;cognitive struc
