Protectionist values in Turkish education system sample: Primary education course book

Abstract

Within this work, it has been targeted to analyze 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 compare the frequencies of protectionist values existence in pre and post periods of mandatory primary education, years btw 1994-1996 as the pre law period, and years btw 2001-2003 as the post law  period ,have been included in the analysis. Within this context, only 7th and 8th grade books have been analyzed so as to limit on grade selection.
Turkish, Social Sciences, Citizenship 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 14 different course book has 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 values have a high rate of existence in the latter period on compared to the former