Protectionist values in Turkish education system sample primary education course books

Abstract

Within this work, it has been targeted to analyse the protectionist values in lesson books being used by social sciences courses within pre and post mandatory primary education, in primary education level of Turkish Education system.Aiming to indicate how protectionist values have taken place in primary education course books, in order to complete the frequencies of protectionist values existencies in pre and post periods of mandatory primary education, years between 1994-1996 as the pre law period, and years between 2001-2003 as the post law period, have been included in the analysis. Within this context, only 5th and 8th grade books have been analyzed so as to limit on grade selection.Turkish, Social Sciences, Citizienship and Human Rights Education, Ataturk Principles and History of Reforms, Religious Culture and Ethical Values courses and books formed the core of the interest here.During these years, in total fourteen different course books have been lectures, and here the frequency of the existence of protectionist values have been analyzed. As the conclusion of the analysis, it has been defined that the protectionist value have a high rate of existence in the latter period on compared to the former.