The effect of values education activites integrated with seventh grade science subjects on students' value development

Developing identity and personality can be seen as the internalization process of values, rules and norms of society where the person lives. Education and training is one of the most important factor in this process. In this context, the current study is aimed to investigate the effect of value education activities integrated with 7th grade science contents on the development of some universal values (tolerance, culture of democracy, solidarity, self-reliance and perseverance) through a mixed-method approach. To illustrate quantitative findings about participants' development of the values, study was supported with qualitative data gathering methods. During data gathering process, firstly, quantitative data were collected through a form contains 12 dilemmas which was developed by the first author was implemented as pre-test and post-test. The findings of the study showed that teaching activities including values education supported the 7th grade students' value acquisition. Analyses of average scores obtained from pre and post intervention of the dilemma form were revealed a statistically significant development in favor of post-test scores of the experimental group. On the hand, qualitative data which were only obtained from experimental group supported the findings of quantitative ones.