Investigating daily newspapers in terms of values in social studies curriculum

When primary school curriculum is analyzed, it is found that one of the most useful subjects to benefit from the concept of values education is Social Studies. Social Studies enable people to benefit from a lot of sources owing to learning outcomes, values, skills and subordinate branches that they include. One of those sources is daily newspapers. The main objective of this study is analyzing daily newspapers in terms of values education. Within the context of that, for five days in each month; July, August and September in the year 2016; in total 150-days newspapers by five major topics which were; headlines, advertisements, images, columns and reports, investigated by document analyzing in the basis of 20 values that are in Social Studies curriculum; besides, the opinions of primary school teachers on making use of newspapers for values education, were tried to be defined as a means of face-to-face interviews that had been made with 24 primary school teachers who work in Afyonkarahisar city center. Following the document searches, it was specified that all of the values in Social Studies curriculum are seen in newspapers at different rates. As results of interviews, several findings were obtained in contexts of followings such as: Reasons of primary school teachers for benefiting or not from newspapers throughout values education processes; the ways their using of newspapers and the practices they carry out; the parts which from they make use of newspapers most; the values that they think they encounter most in newspapers; the opinions on negative contents take place in newspapers; advices for protecting children from negative contents; contents which should be shown in a newspaper that is released for children. Concordantly, before starting to serve, primary school teachers-to-be may carry out concrete practices by different methods and techniques for different subjects, on benefiting from newspapers as an educational material. Newspapers that could be used as an educational material on values education can be designed by means of newspapers supplement for children or directly as newspapers for children. Keywords: Values Education, Social Studies, Daily Newspapers