Edebiyat Öğretiminde Muhafazakâr Kanon
Conservative Canon in Teaching Literature

Summary/Abstract: In literature, canon is formed by mentioning authors and poets who meet the criteria specified by authorities together and including others in this group on condition that they resemble authors and poets in question. Canon in literature teaching paves the way for society’s perception of literature to be developed through a political sieve. This study aims to investigate which authors and poets are mentioned most frequently in the Turkish language and literature curricula and observed whether a canon of these poets and authors has been formed. In this study, document analysis method which is one of the qualitative research methods is used. Accordingly, in total seven language and literature curricula published after the proclamation of Republic in Turkey were examined. It was found that no author and poet names were mentioned in the curricula published before 1950. It was observed that politically and artistically traditionalist and conservative authors and poets were mentioned in the language and literature curricula instead of those who were on the innovative side.

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