DETERMINAÇÃO DA OPINIÃO DOS ALUNOS SOBRE O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE MATERIAL DIDÁTICO A PARTIR DE RESÍDUOS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of special education students about the process of developing teaching materials using waste materials. This research was carried out with 82 students in the last year of undergraduate program of private e-education teaching department. In this study, semi-structured interview questions consisting of 5 questions were used as data collection tool. In this research, students developed materials to be used in activities for teaching concepts in concept teaching book. The research continued for 12 weeks in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. At the end of the study, it was seen that pre- service teachers used pet bottles as the most used waste material in the process of developing instructional materials from waste materials, and shapes and textures were the subjects that they preferred to develop most. Regarding the necessity of waste materials in terms of teaching profession, the students stated that their awareness about recycling increased at the end of the process. In terms of the gains in the process, the students stated that they learned to work in difficult conditions at the end of the process. As the most common problem encountered in the process of material development with waste material, students state that the waste material they collect is in a very hygienic condition.