An activity based action research aiming historical empathy thorough creative drama in social studies

The most general definition of empathy is that someone else. Tre concept of empathy everges in mony fields in social sciences. As a motter of fact, it is also important for social studies wich is an interdisiplinary field covering social studies. The aim of this research is to examine the historical drama skills which are impotent in terms of karning of historical subjects in social studies course through creative drama method. For this purpase, scholors in Turkish İslamic States in the social studies book have been studied with creative drama method by 7th grade students and historical empathy skills of students was examined. The study group of the research was compased of 7th grade students of secondary school in Bartın province. Multiple date collection tools were used in the research and the action research models was used. As a result of the research, it was seen that creative drama contributed significantly to the 7th grade students historical empathy skills. Besides, thanks to the creative drama, the students have learned the history topics with pleasure. Besides, that students enjoyed activities aiming historical empathy skills trough creative drama method and their interest in history topics and desire to learn went up was observed. Considering result of the research, objectives in social studies teaching curriculum wich can be covered through creative drama method in development and acquisition of historical empathy skill are determined. After that suggestions related to works that will be done were presented. Keywords: Social studies, historical empathy, action research, creative drama.