Nationalism, Patriotism and Global Citizenship: A Comparison in between the Social Studies Teacher Candidates in the US and Turkey

Ali Altıkulaç,Alper Yontar

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.7n.4p.115

Ali Altıkulaç, Alper Yontar

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https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.7n.4p.115

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to introduce the opinions of the social studies teachers who receive education in USA and Turkey in relation to the concepts of nationalism, patriotism and global citizenship comparatively. The basic research design belonging to the research is of a case study model. The multiple techniques have been used to transform the data sets to findings. According to the results of the research, it becomes evident that the constructive patriotism attitudes that belong to the participants from both countries are high and if comparison is made, the blind patriotism attitudes that belong to the participants from Turkey are higher than the participants from USA. On the other hand, if the global citizenship attitudes are taken as a basis, the participants from USA are more prone to global citizenship in comparison to the participants from Turkey.

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Every single country makes an effort to instill a national consciousness and patriotism to its own citizens
The interpretation that the teachers taking place in the working group are better prone to constructive patriotism being from among the types of patriotism together with blind patriotism may be brought
The difference in between the blind patriotism score averages of the participants from Turkey and the blind patriotism score averages belonging to the participants from USA within the working group supports the participants from Turkey and this difference is statistically significant

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Every single country makes an effort to instill a national consciousness and patriotism to its own citizens. Within the course of Social Studies, matters relating to nationalism, patriotism and global citizenship are often met within the scope of the target of bringing up good citizens. What is conspicuous at this point is the peculiarity of belonging to a land that is cared by Smith (1991) and apportioned the first rank within his special ranking. This is not an ordinary land but the land which turns a society of the same kind to a nation, a native country. A definition by Joseph Stalin (2013) is as below: “A community of people is a group that is made up of psychological structure that reveals itself through cultural sharing on the basis of a steady language that has evolved historically, land, economic life”

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