Aesthetic value teaching in social studies textbooks
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to evaluate how the aesthetic value is handled in social studies textbooks. In this study, document analysis was used. Firstly, the sections devoted to the teaching of aesthetic value in the social studies curriculum were examined. After the social studies, curriculum was reviewed it was found that only two of the textbooks (the 5th and 7th grades social studies textbooks) contained sections that taught aesthetic value. The findings of the research indicate that values education has a significant place in the social studies curriculum (2018), but the teaching of aesthetic value is very scarce in social studies textbooks. Aesthetic value is being taught by giving only examples of historical buildings or historical relicts. Aesthetic value has not presented in the context of creativity, beauty, thinking of beauty, meaning of beauty, creation of beauty or the emotional and intellectual basis of beauty.
Keywords: Aesthetic value, values education, social studies textbooks, social studies teaching.
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