The analysis of global values in elt coursebooks published by the ministry of national education for 2018-2019 academic years

Due to the global problems what we face every day, educators agree that every lesson should end up with a change touching on the society. Such a need in education has helped the arrival of Critical Pedagogy and Socially Responsible Teaching to the field and the Ministry of National Education added values education to the curriculum of English lessons for the first time in 2018. Language teaching is suitable in adopting these trends as content-integrated language teaching provides the field flexibility in the selection of topics. Based on Critical Pedagogy and Socially Responsible Teaching, this present study aimed to analyze global values in ELT coursebooks published by the Ministry of National Education for 2018-2019 academic years. Eight ELT coursebooks have been analyzed with the help of descriptive content analysis and deductive analysis of content has been conducted on pre-determined aspects of global values education. The values that have taken under investigations were Anti-bias Education, Environmental Education and Peace Education. Elements regarding these aspects have been collected from each coursebook and the findings suggest that the coursebooks are not effective enough for empowering learners with skills related to global values since inequalities, imbalances and insufficiencies have been observed within the coursebooks from part to part, which calls for evaluation of coursebooks. However, findings have been found to be promising when compared to studies in relevant literature.