Virtues and role model characters in Kemalettin Tuğcu's novels

Narrative texts for children have important contributions to children's personal development and education. There are many narrative texts in Turkish literature that can be evaluated in this sense. Kemalettin Tuğcu's novels can be considered among these texts. In the study, role model characters in Kemalettin Tuğcu's children's novels were examined in the context of the "Virtues" theme in the Turkish Education Program (2019). The aim of the study is to reveal the role model aspects of the characters in the analyzed novels in relation to virtuous behaviors. The study consists of five chapters in total. Introduction part, the purpose and importance of the research, problem situation, scope and limitations are stated. The first part contains the conceptual framework of the study. In the third part, the method and method of researches are specified. The second part of the fourth part consists of the findings and comments that consist of the main part of the study. This section contains general information about virtuous behaviors that are based on classification. Virtuous behaviors are listed by giving the character traits of the role models in the novels. At the end of the virtues, the findings showing the distribution of role model characters into titles are tabulated. In the second part of the third chapter, the role model characters in the analyzed novels are shown in two tables according to their characteristics, child and adult. Finally, in the fourth part of the thesis, the novels examined by presenting the results and suggestions; Turkish education has been evaluated in terms of children's literature, character education and characters being role models. As a result of the study, it was determined that the novels examined were based on characters from which children can take role models. According to this determination, Kemalettin Tuğcu's novels can be used as material in Turkish education.