Browsing by Author "Sengil-Akar S."

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Investigation of mathematical collective creativity of gifted middle school students during model-eliciting activities: the case of the quilt problem
(2022-01-01) Sengil-Akar S.; Yetkin-Ozdemir I.E.
This study aimed to examine the collective mathematical creativity of gifted middle school students within a group through model-eliciting activities. The current study employed the case study design. The participating four gifted students were selected through the purposive sampling technique. To examine the collective creativity of the students as a group, model-eliciting activities were administered to a focus group in which four students worked together. One of these activities was subjected to a detailed descriptive analysis. The collective mathematical creativity of the students demonstrated in the course of model eliciting, the solutions produced by the students and their opinions about them (fluency), the variation in the solutions (flexibility), the interconnected construction of the students’ ideas during the solution process (associative hierarchies), and the relationships constructed by the students throughout the whole problem-solving process (building mathematical relationships) were investigated. The creativity of the collective products generated by the students was explained in relation to the dimensions of the accuracy of the models, as well as their generalizability, the solutions’ quality and originality. The model-eliciting activity was examined it in detail by means of the descriptive analysis method.
Understanding the Initial Stories of Families Preferring Homeschooling: A Narrative Study
(2021-06-01) AHI B.; Sengil-Akar S.
The purpose of this study is to understand the story underlying the preference of parents (mothers–fathers) for home school in Turkey and to determine the main points in this story. For this purpose, this study was conducted according to the narrative study model, one of the qualitative research designs. Within the context of this study, the opinions of mothers and fathers of three children receiving their education in the same home school during their preschool period were elicited. As a result of the analysis of the interviews conducted within the context of this study, three super themes and seven different codes gathered under these themes were obtained. As a conclusion, the reasons for the parents’ choice of home school instead of a formal education institution were found to be “Inconsistency between the parents’ expectations and what is offered by the education system, negative effects of formal education on the child, family ideal, school experiences, educational philosophy and employment status, developmental reasons/concerns, negative social interaction at school, and their encounter with the proposal for home school.”