Problems that are confronted with while teaching time concepts in history lesson in secondary education and teacher?s points of view about the subject (example of Aksaray province)

This study discusses problems that teachers are confronted with while teaching time concepts in history lesson in secondary education. The thesis consist of six chapters, namely introduction, history and time, teaching historical time concept, methodology, findings and their interpretation, conclusion and suggestions. The study is a descriptive field study, where qualitative and quantative methods are used . The investigation was carried out in the secondary schools of history teachers in the iner city of Aksaray. Questionaire, reflecting problems that includes expressions and situations confronted or to be confronted by history teachers in teaching time concept, was carried out. Also teachers were interviewed to take their other experiments and opinions related to subject. Findings were analysed and interpreted . Interpreting the data obtained from the investigations, one can conclude that whichever secondary education it has been, teachers who are confronted with various problems about teaching time concept that must be tought wien they were attending primary school, and students couldn?t deal with transfering pertaining of the Christian era to pertaining of to Hegira, and they couldn?t understand exactly time expression that take part in history lesson. It can be concluded from the study that teachers confronted with problems in teaching time concept resulting from students, teachers, school curriculum, materials, limited lesson hours, educations strategies, methods and techniques.