A Qualitative Research on the Effect of Chaos and Butterfly Effect on Education

Chaos is a scientific approach that refers to the fact that systems or behaviors that are thought to be irregular, complex, impossible to predict actually occur in an orderly manner. The aim of this research is to determine what chaos and butterfly effect mean in terms of education, the importance of chaos and butterfly effect in education and its effects on education. The research is a qualitative study aimed at determining the opinions of teachers about chaos and butterfly effect. The case study method was used in the research. The research was carried out with 23 teachers selected on a voluntary basis among 44 teachers who are doing master's degrees in educational sciences. Research data were collected with a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher. All the data obtained were analyzed by coding using the content analysis method. In the research, it was concluded that the chaos and butterfly effect positively affect students' development of different ideas, improve their ability to analyze, activate metacognitive functions, and give students the ability to solve problems more quickly by evaluating them from different point of view.