Effective factors on developing research culture in elementary education: study with the phenomenology approach

This study was done with the aim of identifying factors affecting the development of research culture in elementary education in academic year of 2017. In this research, qualitative method with phenomenological approach was used. The participants in the study were selected among the faculty members and experts in the field of education. The purposeful sampling method was used for which deep and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 participants. The data were saturated in the twelfth interview, but to confirm the results, the data were gathered until the 20th interview and the data were analyzed using a Colaizzi method. Then, the results of this study were presented to the participating faculty members in this study and the results of the study were confirmed. The findings were extracted in 980 initial codes, 26 sub-themes and 8 main themes, including students researching skills, family factors, educational factors, school climate, research encouragement culture, financial resources, organizational factors and social – cultural factors.