6. SINIF SOSYAL BİLGİLER DERS KİTABINDA VATANDAŞLIK ALGISI
PERCEPTION OF CITIZENSHIP ON 6TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOK

Summary/Abstract: Citizenship status is a right that is given to the persons and it is under constitutional guarantee. In modern national states, citizenship functions around two models, which are called liberal and republican. Liberal model mostly emphasizes the constitutional rights while the republican model is more focused on obligations. In this context, the objective of this study is to compare citizenship perceptions of Turkey in terms of its social studies textbooks used in 6th grades. This study seeks answers to the following question: What type of citizenship perception comes into prominence in Turkey’s textbooks: Is it citizenship that has rights or citizenship that has obligations? Content analysis and comparative research methods are used in this research. In content analysis stage, citizenship category was identified first, and was approved by three educational sciences experts to achieve the validity of the methodologies. Research data were obtained by scanning textbooks in accordance with citizenship category. To demonstrate the reliability of the study, coding schemes were made twice by a-week apart. More than 80% agreement is achieved between the two codes. Findings were formed by identifying distributions of frequencies and percentages.

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