مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Teachers’ Perceptions of the Gains of Social Studies Lessons upon Cultural Life

Abstract :

From the creation of the first man there has been a long history of culture, within an environment where individuals live together through the course of time in constant change. This process of cultural change brings material and spiritual differentiation. Any individual needing to cope with these differences needs to re-examine the variety of life-style preferences. In cultural life there is influence from many disciplines which affect the individual’s life related to individual gains. This area of study is one of the areas of research in social studies. The aim of this study, obtaining the opinions of social studies teachers, was to determine the gains from social studies teaching upon cultural life. The research group consisted of 100 social studies secondary school teachers from Diyarbakir, Mardin, Muş and Erzurum. The opinions of these social studies teachers were obtained through open-ended questions and a semi-structured questionnaire. The results obtained were analysed through qualitative information analysis techniques. The results of this research indicate that the social studies teachers have different perceptions of their impact on cultural life, these results also show their justifications vary, one from another.