ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF THE TURKISH WORLD IN HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY BOOKS Cover Image

LİSE COĞRAFYA KİTAPLARINDA TÜRK DÜNYASININ İŞLENİŞİNİN ANALİZİ
ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF THE TURKISH WORLD IN HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY BOOKS

Author(s): Cafer KARDAŞ
Subject(s): Historical Geography, School education, State/Government and Education, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Geography education; textbooks; the Turkish world in geography education;

Summary/Abstract: The Turkish world emerges as a concept that covers a wide geography where Turkish cultural elements that spread from Central Asia continue to exist by being preserved in different geographies.The role of education is very important in introducing the Turkish world, which constitutes the living space of the cultural elements that the Turkish communities, which have a very old history in the historical process, accumulated and developed over time, and in raising their awareness in this context.Geography education emerges as a research area that incorporates many aspects such as the lifestyles and environmental factors of communities living in different parts of the world.It can be stated that geography lessons should have an important place in the acquisition of the Turkish world to students.This research has been prepared in order to reveal the handling of the Turkish world in high school geography textbooks.Within the scope of this purpose, secondary school 9, 10, 11 and 12th grade geography textbooks, which are used as official textbooks in public schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in the 2022-2023 academic year, were collected through document analysis.The obtained data were subjected to content analysis. The research is a basic qualitative study prepared in the field of social sciences. In the study, scanning method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used.Based on the findings of the research; It has been concluded that the contents of the Turkish world in high school geography textbooks are gradually expanded and increasingly included in the textbooks.It was seen that the most content about the Turkish world in the examined textbooks was the 11th and 12th grade geography textbooks.

  • Issue Year: 15/2023
  • Issue No: 59
  • Page Range: 298-303
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Turkish