Personal and Social Values in Primary Grade Children’s Books

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 1 - 9, 01.06.2019

Ayfer Şahin

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.19.1.6.1

Cited By: 1

Abstract

One requirement of realizing the aims of Turkish National Education is
educating individuals that adopt the values of Turkish Nation. Families,
educational institutions, and teaching materials have important roles to
raise individuals who adopt social values and put them into practice. One
of the important materials is written children books. In this context, the
aim of the study is to determine the personal and social values dealt with
in primary grade children's books. One of the qualitative methods,
document analysis method was used in the study. Universe of the study
was consisted of written children’s books of elementary grades. Sample
was consisted of children books that are sold in the city center of
Kırşehir. The sample a total of 210 children from domestic and foreign
authors who were selected by random sampling among the children’s
books belonging to different publishing house offered for sale in book
stories in the city center of Kırşehir were created from the book. To
collect data, “Values Control List” was developed and used by the
researcher. Study findings showed that the children’s books commonly
include individual values are “responsibility, love, goodness, diligence,
animal love and trust” and social values are “friendship, helpfulness and
unity of family”. The least mentioned individual values are “cleanliness,
being patient, frugality, loyalty, being tactful and morality” and social
values are “patriotism, peace, empathy, love of nature and freedom”.

Keywords

Value, value education, children’s books, elementary education

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