The theme of child and education in Oğuz Tansel's stories

Stories are indispensable products of children?s literature. Stories, the first of literary products that children meet, present importance both from the point of transferring culture and making formulations towards the life. As well as enriching child?s imagination, they are the most functional products since they are teaching with Tansel?s expression ?? the favour, the truth without marking or punishing??Realizing a first in the area of story Tansel utters that stories are not a tool to make the children sleep on the contrary they are the tools to wake them up and make them conscious and he composed his works on this way.In that research, Oğuz Tansel?s view to the notions ?child? and ?education? from his conversations and articles that took place in several magazines and newspapers have been established, the features of teacher and student in Tansel?s stories have been defined, in which direction of the education themes in Tansel?s stories and the messages that Tansel wants to express have been determined. Which education currents could be associated with Tansel?s education themes has been searched and all the evaluations have been done on this way.