The relationship between visual-text in social studies coursebooks

Social Studies course is a lesson that facilitates the participation of the individual in social life and makes them aware of what is happening around. In this course, it is tried to explain the concept of democracy to students and create national consciousness. In addition to this, it is aimed to teach students the geographical, historical and cultural characteristics of our country. Some concepts such as love, peace, fraternity with commercial, social and cultural activities are tried to make students adapt at regional, national and internetional level. The coursebooks have become one of the important tools in education in terms of being the main source of information and showing which subjects are taught in the course. For Social Studies course, coursebooks are a very important tools to pay students attention and enable them to comprehend the topic. The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between image and text in the social studies textbooks used in the academic year 2018-2019. In the study, which belongs to the qualitative examination methods of document analysis, social studies textbooks of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grade were examined. During the study, the relevant literature was examined and the required records were made and on this basis a documentary review was carried out. The data were quantified and tabulated and interpreted. During the research, the correspondence of the images contained in the books with the design principles, the title of the text and the correspondence between the images and the text was examined. As a result of the investigation, it was found that the graphics contained in the books should be of higher quality and that the graphics that encourage students to think more should be used. Keywords; Social Studies Coursebook, Relationship between visual and text