Abstract
The general objectives of primary education put forward the qualities, which students should gain in accordance with the general objectives of Turkish national education. These qualities are desired to be gained with the help of several courses in the primary education curriculum which has been established in order the fulfil the objectives of primary education and put into practice. The qualities cover some cognitive qualification, psychomotor competence and affective behaviors. People who know can be brought up through cognitive qualification; people who have got the ability to do can be brought up through psychomotor behaviors and people who question and know what to do can be brought up through affective behaviors. In Turkish national educational system, the objectives facing sensible characteristics decrease when both educational level increases and the amount of general objectives decreases. Besides some other effects, the decrease in the objectives result in the studies about affective behaviors can’t be achieved in a sufficient level. The emotions which are objected to be gained are mentioned in curriculum; however, in content, there is no explanation about these emotions and there is no concrete examples about how to gain these emotions. This situation affects the quality of education negatively. In this study, the objectives of primary education curriculums are analyzed in the respect of affective behaviors and emotional education and some proposals are put forward. Key words : Curriculum, affect, affective behaviors, emotional education
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