ERIC Number: EJ1439941
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
EISSN: EISSN-1573-7608
Failure Analysis and Continual Improvement in the Engineering Design Process: Teacher Roles in Children's Problem-Solving Processes
Education and Information Technologies, v29 n12 p15229-15248 2024
STEM education, which means integrated thinking, attracts the attention of early childhood educators and researchers. Engineering education, which naturally serves STEM integration, contributes to children's problem-solving skills with failure analysis and continual improvement habits of mind. Children need adult support in this process due to their developmental characteristics. This study focuses on the roles of teachers in situations where children fail to solve the problems they encounter in the engineering design process. In this direction, the research was carried out with a case study. The participants were 17 preschool teachers working in southwestern Turkey and 255 children in their classes. The data for the study were collected through observation and a semi-structured interview protocol. The data were analyzed by content analysis. According to the results, teachers facilitated failure analysis and continual improvement processes in the problems faced by children by encouraging them to rethink the problem, encouraging them to persist, and inviting communication and cooperation with friends. The findings highlight teacher encouragement as important in children's failure analysis and continual improvement processes.
Descriptors: STEM Education, Early Childhood Education, Problem Solving, Teacher Role, Engineering, Design, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Failure, Improvement, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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