The analysis of news in the 6th and 7th grade textbooks in terms of values in social studies curriculum

While values including socially accepted truths hold society together, they also strengthen the social bond of the individual. Social studies textbooks play an important role for the new generation to gain these values. However, the presentation of values in textbooks by reflecting them in a news text instead of a text or direct expression on its own both facilitates the understanding of the value and concretizes its behavioral response with real life examples. For this reason, it is necessary to evaluate the status of the news texts in social studies textbooks including social values. In this study, which examines the value transfer of news texts in the 6th and 7th grade social studies textbook of primary education, the descriptive document analysis design has been adopted. The material of the study consists of news texts in social studies textbooks published by the Ministry of National Education to be used as a Social Studies textbook in 6th and 7th grades in the 2018-19 academic year. In this study, in which the document analysis method was preferred in the analysis of the texts, it was determined that the news texts were used effectively in the textbooks of both classes for value transfer. When the number of texts in the books were compared in terms of classes, it was understood that the number of texts preferred for the purpose of transferring value for the 6th grade was higher than the 7th grade, that the texts were preferred in almost every learning field, and not every value in the SCPP was preferred for transferring through texts.It has been understood that most of the values conveyed in the news texts are conveyed indirectly, and in the transfer of the rest, value-explained case studies or only case studies are preferred.