Teacher characters and the phenomenon of education in the novels of rebublic era socialist- realist writers (1940-1960)

Social-realism comprehension having more influence after the 1940s in Turkish novel and story had survived powerfully with the works of writers who were impressed from left-socialist ideology until 1980s. The social-realist writers who believed that the inequalities in society could be eradicated through struggle given by focusing on the downtrodden classes, as well as a leftist political and cultural struggle, have tried to reflect exploitation, inequality and relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed in their pieces like poems, stories and novels. In 1940, especially with opening of Village Institutes, many socialist-realist writers began to thrive in these educational institutions. In particular, the novels kept centred teachers and education at their writing period of teachers - origin writers who have graduated from the Institute arouse great interest. This research based upon document review comprise, for the period in question, especially the time period from the opening of the Village Institutes in 1940 until the 1960 military coup. Our thesis considers a total of 10 pieces that shelter teacher characters in the representative cast of characters of socialist-realist writers and give educational message by means of instructive characters, and these 10 novels also form our main study universe. In this study, the 10 novels will be reviewed based on content analysis on the axis of "teaching profession-education" manner. In the novels to be examined of socialist-realist writers, ideal education and ideal teacher messages will be determined with the help of document scanning method and the related messages will be commented in a an elaborative manner under separate headings by utilizing descriptive analysis and content analysis. As a result of the analysis of these messages, it will be tried to determine how affect the economic structure of the places where teachers work, the relationship between teachers and the public, the opinions of the public about education, and the reasons why teachers prefer their professions affect education. Furthermore, with interpretation of the traits and behaviours of the teacher-profession in the novels examined, the basic qualifications of the ideal teacher depicted in the artefacts will be enlightened.