Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretmen Adaylarının Osmanlı ve Fetih Kavramlarına İlişkin Bilişsel Yapılarının Kelime İlişkilendirme Testi Yoluyla Analizi

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the cognitive structures of prospective social studies teachers related to the concepts of Ottoman and Conquest through the word association test. The study was prepared in accordance with the qualitative research method and was designed according to the case study pattern. The study group consisted of 128 prospective social studies teachers studying at a state university’s faculty of education. The Word Association Test prepared by the researchers was used in the study as a data collection tool. Ottoman and Conquest key concepts were chosen to create the test. The word association test prepared for the purpose was distributed to prospective teachers. Prospective teachers were asked to write the words that come to their minds about the key concepts given to the relevant spaces in the test. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data. The responses of each participant regarding the key concepts were evaluated one by one and a frequency table was created according to the number of times the words were repeated. Considering the repetition numbers of the words associated with the key concepts, seven breakpoint ranges were determined. Data for each range are shown and explained in figures. As a result of analyzing the research data, it was found out that while prospective social studies teachers associate the Ottoman key concept with a total of 157 different words, they associate the key concept of Conquest with 133 different words. It is concluded that the words most closely associated with the Ottoman concept are the words of tolerance, the sultan and empire, and the words most associated with the concept of Conquest are Istanbul, Fatih Sultan Mehmet and war.