Supervisor: Kariotoglou Petros

Title: Early childhood education teachers’ views and practices for the planning and implementation in science education

Three-member advisory comitee:

1) Kariotoglou Petros
2) Papadopoulou Penelope
3) Spyrtou Anna

Abstract

The research describes the views and practices of early childhood education teachers related to the teaching of Science. Furthermore, the purpose of this research is to investigate whether the influence of a professional learning program, focused on instructional design in Science, is reflected on their views and practices after a significant time of their participation in the program. The investigation of the views and practices will take place with semi-structured individual interviews and non-participant observation. The data will be analyzed qualitatively, but we will also try a kind of quantification for easier comparison.