‘İDEAL ÇOCUK’TAN ‘KÜRESEL TÜKETİCİ’YE: TÜRKİYE’DE ÇOCUK DERGİLERİ VE ÇOCUK İMGESİ

Abstract

Children’s magazine that is agemate with the Turkish press is important not only for the history of childhood but also the social history. Even though they play a role in the modernization project, state-building, children's literature, or education, children's magazines do not draw attention enough by the academic researchers. The aim of this study is to examine the history of children’s magazines published throuh 150 years, and to reveal changing the image of children via this magazines. Revealing the ideologies and values transferred over children’s magazines gives information regarding what kind of child image wanted to be created/built in this process.For this pupose, this study cronologically evaluates the history of transformation of children’s magazines in time and present a panaromic view from 19.th century to 21th century. The study examine the children’s magazines in the historical process in paralell with political, economic and socio-culturel changes that Turkey underwent. Starting from the Ottoman era, the study evaluate the children’s magazines regarding the determined periods as ‘early-single party periods’, ‘after 1950’s multy party system’ and ‘after 1980’s’ with a complementary point of view. Literature survey is used for the study. The study, following the values and ideologies transferred by the magazines, reveals that the image of child transformed from ideal-citizen child to consumer child.