The Investigation of the prose texts in the Turkish course books for primary school class 6, 7, 8 according to convenience to principle of relativity to child and according to the educational messages included in the texts

VABSTRACTMaster ThesisThe Investigation of The Prose Texts in The Turkish Course Books for PrimarySchool Class 6, 7, 8 According to Convenience to Principle of Relativity to Childand According to The Educational Messages Included in The Texts.Elif Emine KÜÇÜKFırat UniversityInstitute of Social ScienceTurkish Education Branch of Science2005; Page:XVI +187For an individual: to be able to give direction to his/her emotions and opinions,to acquire creative and critical thinking power, to approach occurrences objectively, tosocialize, to imbibe the national and universal values, to keep in step with the modernlife are crucial for social development.All these are possible only with education, which is a process of adaptation andchange. The peculiarities individual posses, shape via the education process startingfrom the childhood and get positive characteristic. The most fertile and feeding backperiod of education is the childhood term.Turkish courses aims to give the students the ability to use parent language in acorrect and perfect form. The texts are the main instrument for Turkish Courses.Therefore the texts should be harmonious with the Principle of Relativity to Child.In the study, the investigations have been applied on the prose texts in theTurkish Course Books for Primary School Class 6, 7 and 8, which constitute the sampleof the study, from the aspect of being convenient to Principle of Relativity to Child andVIeducational messages have been investigated dependently on the targets determined inthe Turkish Education Program.The Principle of Relativity to Child has been scrutinized on the basis oflanguage, expression and subject. The educational messages have been determined, thesentences quoting the message directly or indirectly have been selected, and thedistributions of the messages as to content and objective have been depicted. Languageand expression findings have been interpreted from the aspect of classes respectivelyand the educational messages have been explained in the direction of kinds.In the results of the research, it has been revealed that the prose texts in thecourse books can not perfectly carry out the functions of making children interested inthe literature and reading the literary works of art, to know the different lives, to thinkcritical, and to activate imaginative power. The texts being appropriate to relativity tochild in the senses of language and expression but not being differentiating among theclasses, and the messages given in the texts being for the same aim are among the mostconsiderable results.Keywords: Turkish Course Books, Prose Texts, Relativity to Child, EducationalMessage, Language, Expression