Analysis of Social Novels in Terms of Goals of Teaching Social Studies
Abstract
In this research, it is aimed to analyse the educational messages about goals of social studies lessons in social novels and to show how often they are found.
Data source of this research constitutes social novels, and the working group is fifteen (15) social novels on the "100 Temel Eser-100 Main Books" list which are suggested for primary school students by Educational Secretary Minister. Belongs in these list of novels eight (8) are Turkish literature and seven (7) are World literature. Since the written materials to be analysed in the research are novels, a document review was used as the data collection method. The analysis of the data obtained by using the document analysis technique within the context of the qualitative research method has been done through descriptive analysis.
In the social novels that constituted the working group, it has been observed that concepts related to social participation skill were found to be involved the most common. It was followed by values and concepts of human rights. And the democracy concepts were found the least. It was followed by concepts of citizenship.
Keywords
Social novel,human rights,democracy,social participation skills,values.
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