Social Studies Textbooks in Turkey in Terms of Citizenship and Human Rights: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Gürel, Davut; Avci, Görkem
Titel	Social Studies Textbooks in Turkey in Terms of Citizenship and Human Rights: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Quelle	In: International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 14 (2022) 2, S.1600-1628 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gürel, Davut)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1562-0506
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Studies; Textbooks; Textbook Content; Citizenship; Civil Rights; Political Issues; Cultural Pluralism; Citizenship Education; Elementary Secondary Education; World Problems; Social Problems; Poverty; Environment; Terrorism; War; Natural Disasters; Democratic Values; Social Values; Economic Factors; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gemeinschaftskunde; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Lehrbuchtext; Staatsbürgerschaft; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Politischer Faktor; Kulturpluralismus; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Weltproblem; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Armut; Umwelt; Terrorismus; Krieg; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Sozialer Wert; Ökonomischer Faktor; Türkei
Abstract	Educational institutions play a significant role in today's world, where the concepts of democracy and human rights gain more and more importance day by day. Every country aims to provide the qualifications that its citizens believe they should have via educational institutions. While doing this, it can reflect the current ideology of the period into curricula. In Turkey, as a democratic country, the most important course in which the content related to citizenship and human rights is conveyed at the primary level is the social studies course. In this study, it is aimed to examine the situations of including the concepts of human rights and citizenship in social studies textbooks used in Turkey with critical discourse analysis. For this purpose, text analyzes were conducted using Sketch Engine software. The textbooks were compared with the Turkish web pages in terms of the concepts related to citizenship and human rights, and the use of these concepts in the text was evaluated through a critical approach. The results revealed that the selected textbooks touched on some concepts related to human rights and citizenship very superficially; the treatment of some concepts was not compatible with social realities. It was concluded that it could not be sufficient enough to offer courses with such concepts as women's rights, feminism, gender equality, ethnicity, belief, political rights, and multiculturalism. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. California School of Education, Alliant International University, 10455 Pomerado Road, San Diego, CA 92131. Web site: http://ijci.wcci-international.org/index.php/IJCI/about
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01