The Effects of an Early Childhood Teacher Education Program Based on a Feminist Science Educational Approach

Abstract

This study intends to verify the effects of application of the feminist science educational approach and to seek new directions of early childhood teacher education. First, the study demonstrated that an early childhood teacher education program based on a feminist science educational approach had an influence on enabling the positive recognition of science, scientists, and early childhood science education. It was also determined that the early childhood teacher education program based on a feminist science educational approach helped teachers develop a scientific attitude and helped science lessons through the aspects of lesson planning, management, and evaluation.