The Role Of History Education in The Process of Construcing Values: Aims, Functions and Content

Volume: 6 Number: 15 June 1, 2008
  • İsmail H. Demircioğlu
  • M. Ahmet Tokdemir
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The Role Of History Education in The Process of Construcing Values: Aims, Functions and Content

Abstract

There has been a steady change in the objectives of the teaching of history in the last century. It was mainly accepted a course transmitting the knowledge of the past and culture before the Second World War. After the Second World War, in the developed world, especially in England, the teaching of history was structured to teach thinking skills together with the knowledge of the past and culture. The objectives of the teaching of history has been examined, it seems that transmitting values is one of the objectives of this subject for along time. Values are the mental concepts which effect and direct our thoughts and our behaviors with our believes and our manner of conduct which are involved in the sensory. As our values guide our behaviors and carry upon our judgments and instant goals to a higher point of view, by this way, they inform us how should we be and in which way should we behave. As our total manner of conduct could be referenced to our self-value system, from education to economics and form philosophy to theology, all branches of sciences are interested in some way with the values systems. if we look from this point of view whis is consist of the classification which is already made, we can see that they are based upon psychological, sociologic and philosophic fundamentals . When we look at the History of Value Education mainly in USA and Europe, we see that value promoting (inspiring), value clarification, value analyzing and character education has been approached in Value Training. Later in time more attention has been given to value formations. To enforce these approaching in value educations various value training possibly can be associated The classes which are being given in our country, as democracy and human rights, theology and ethics, social studies, are related most efficacious to our self-value system in the point of topics they have had. Each class topic in certain points has a connection to values, like teaching of environmental values in Geography lessons or scientific values in science lessons. History classes develop students’ mental skills of making critics, analysis and democratic thinking. in this classes, it improves the consciousness of citizenship as teaching the facts as native land, nation, government, government policy, rights and responsibilities in addition to that, history classes have a great deal with the facts of teaching social values and to shape new ones. History classes are the ones in which we can find out the answers of the questions of how our social values are emerged and how they came to today. the students learn present social values in these classes. in this way, it is done that the social values are thought to new generations by transferring and are realized in continuity. If we investigate the social studies considering the acquiring self-values formation, it is clear that they could contribute to acquiring self-values formation in the fields of generating new social values and transferring them to new generations. how social values have changed and the reasons of this mutation and the important personages in history and their lives are very useful components for students to generate new self-values. in social studies, students can make comparison with the ancient social values which were meant so much to the society and the current ones, and they can also take some lessons by looking at the important personages in history and constitute some self-values. Students can catch the opportunity to develop new values or learn from existing values in the classes, by utilizing expression technique, sample event or historic empathy discussion methods. Beside of these, biographies, environmental tours, historic tales, epics, rule books and edicts are methods and material which appears to us in history classes in value training. The purpose of this study is to examine the place of values in the teaching of history. With this in mind, values education, the relationships between the teaching of history and values, the position of history courses in values education will be explained in the light of the related literature.

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Turkish

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Authors

İsmail H. Demircioğlu This is me

M. Ahmet Tokdemir This is me

Publication Date

June 1, 2008

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June 1, 2008

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Published in Issue

Year 2008 Volume: 6 Number: 15

APA
Demircioğlu, İ. H., & Tokdemir, M. A. (2008). Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev ve İçerik. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi, 6(15), 69-88. https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD
AMA
1.Demircioğlu İH, Tokdemir MA. Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev ve İçerik. ded. 2008;6(15):69-88. https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD
Chicago
Demircioğlu, İsmail H., and M. Ahmet Tokdemir. 2008. “Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev Ve İçerik”. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 6 (15): 69-88. https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD.
EndNote
Demircioğlu İH, Tokdemir MA (June 1, 2008) Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev ve İçerik. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 6 15 69–88.
IEEE
[1]İ. H. Demircioğlu and M. A. Tokdemir, “Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev ve İçerik”, ded, vol. 6, no. 15, pp. 69–88, June 2008, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD
ISNAD
Demircioğlu, İsmail H. - Tokdemir, M. Ahmet. “Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev Ve İçerik”. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 6/15 (June 1, 2008): 69-88. https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD.
JAMA
1.Demircioğlu İH, Tokdemir MA. Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev ve İçerik. ded. 2008;6:69–88.
MLA
Demircioğlu, İsmail H., and M. Ahmet Tokdemir. “Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev Ve İçerik”. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 15, June 2008, pp. 69-88, https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD.
Vancouver
1.İsmail H. Demircioğlu, M. Ahmet Tokdemir. Değerlerin Oluşturulma Sürecinde Tarih Eğitimi: Amaç, İşlev ve İçerik. ded [Internet]. 2008 Jun. 1;6(15):69-88. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA38FN93JD