Chaos in Secondary Education Programs and Textbooks in Terms of Literature from Turkish Republic to Today

Abstract

From the republic days to today, chaos in secondary education programs and textbooks in terms of literature has been deeply affecting every new generation and in no way allowing a cosmos/order. Solutions to the problems arising in education systems depend on the adopted national education policy in a country. The national education policy is actualized via education programs, especially the textbooks. For a long time, Ottomans could not decide about the issue of according to which model they would become westernized in education. It was observed that regulations were firstly made according to French sample, and then changed to German model and as of Republic period American-English model. From republic days to today, Turkish language and literature teaching program was prepared and applied by passing a grade level and sometimes passing a course and credit system as the basis, accordingly the textbooks were changed or restructured eighteen times during the periods 76 Ministers of National Education—with repetitions—were witnessed. In this paper, beside the fundamental problem; “Whether Turkish Literature and World Literature take part in secondary education programs and textbooks in an order, in a certain structure and in accordance with a purpose or not”, how the Turkish Literature and World Literature take part in prepared programs and textbooks which were prepared within the frame of these programs; the characteristics of texts selected from related textbooks; how is their contribution to targeted man type and therefore the occurring chaos will be studied.