The use of historical films and series in history education and developing a curriculum-based material guide for the history units in social studies

In formal education, learning content has a complete representative characteristics, and the main function of teachers is to be able to materialize and offer the reality through their representations. In this context; communication, the written, visual and oral language creating the communication and audio-visual education techniologies that bring depth and dimension to communication; has become one of the indispensible proffesional instruments of teachers in this media age that we are a part of. However, due to a series of financial, legal and technical justifications and various prejudices that these justifications feed, it is not possible to say that audio-visual teaching materials and technologies, particularly movie products, have a widespread and institutionalized area of use worldwide. This research aims to reveal the knowledge and awareness levels of social studies teachers in Turkey on the subjects regarding history teaching, their attitudes for the use of movies and serials, and their negative or positive opinions and suggestions on this issue.Within the frame of this purpose, a general qualified questionnaire form that requires one answer was applied for the teachers participating the research as well as semi-structured interviews were made with each teacher individually. The obtained data were coded and interpreted according to categories of research questions, and solutions were offered to overcome the reflected problems and obstacles.