Using an Ecological Approach to Explore Teacher Agency during the Implementation of a Citizen Science Education Program Using Arduino

Abstract Citizen science education is a new approach in for promoting scientific inquiry related to localized problems and engaging social action based on results. Using agency as lens understanding teachers’ practices when using this important. In ethnographic case study, teacher implementing citizen program Arduino was investigated from an ecological temporal relational dimensions of agency. the iterational dimension, teacher’s own experiences traits life professional histories were identified. His identity his religious values formed projective dimension. Encouraging administrators, financial difficulties school, COVID -19 pandemic major elements practical-evaluative Findings reveal complex array context with students, which contributes understandings about