Approaches of the science course of the childrens' whose mothers' participated the family education program: Case study

Abstract

This study investigates the concern of science course whose mothers' completed parenting education programme 3 years ago. The parenting education programme was about families who had children 7-11 years old. The investigation was done with 4 mothers. This case study were examined with 3 semi-structured questions. The analysis of data is done with content analysis. The questions focused on to learn concern of science courses behind to childrens' attitues to the homeworks, succeses at science courses and the activities with their families. The age range of mothers were between 35-40 and two of children 9, 3 children 10 and 1 of the child was 14 years old. As a result, success of students; considering to vulnerabilities for completeing homeworks and the activities that they did with their families was high. The school performances of children showed that, five of them were succesful in science cources. In addition, five of six students are vulnerable to complete their homeworks and also prefer to do simple experiments implemented in to playing and games with their parents. This study revealed that, the children which their families attended to parenting education programme were succesful and interested in science courses, which contributes to their cognitive improvement.