Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Educational Research and Reviews, cilt.10, sa.1, ss.92-100, 2015 (Hakemli Dergi)
Just like it is the reflex of each nation to teach its own history to the next generations, it is essential that
our country is also able to identify the sufficiency level of the Turkish history within the framework of
developing a programme. Through this study, the parallelism between the social studies teaching
programme within the education process and the textbooks and the instructors’ views regarding the
way the Turkish history subjects are presented and the discussion of solution suggestions about these
issues is aimed. Towards this end, the opinions of the instructors of Social Studies have been taken. In
the study, questionnaire technique is used, and it has been established that the Cronbach alpha
reliability coefficient of the scale is 0,89 (α = 0,89), and the results obtained from the scale have been
analysed and interpreted through SPSS 15. The Social Studies teachers make up the universe of the
study, and the instructors who teach 6th and 7th grade social studies in some towns of the city of
Istanbul comprise the sample of the study, who were chosen by means of random method. According
to the results of the study upon the views of the Social Studies teachers, it is realized that the textbooks
of the Turkish history subjects and the way they are presented in the education programme and the
methods and techniques employed in this issue are insufficient, and that the teachers fail to pay
enough attention to benefiting from films, documentaries and various literary products throughout the
education-teaching process. In the research, it is emphasized that students are particularly more
interested in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the recent history, that the instructors are
inadequate in terms of making use of the additional materials in the education-training processes, and
that the textbooks fail to provide sufficient suggestions about the use of various teaching strategies in
the education-teaching processes. In the textbooks, which are indispensable for the education-teaching
processes, the materials that address the learning styles of students are not included sufficiently.