International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

Elementary school level historyteaching in Türkiye, USA and England

  • Author:
  • Gülmisâl Emiroglu
  • Total Page Count: 32
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 582 to 613

Doctorate Program, Linguistics Program Studies, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia (9 pt)

Abstract

History subjects are rich information source because they give exemplification and show development period of national behavior moulds based to national personality qualifications. From this point of view, it has been tried to examine history subjects which are thought at elementary schools in Türkiye, USA and England in this study comparatively and to determine similarities and differences among them. Document Review Method, one of Qualitative Research Methods was used in this study. The scope of the study includes only history subjects which are taught in Elementary school level of mentioned countries. At the end of this study, it was concluded that despite of some differences of USA and England they showed similarity in large extent regarding to basic approach on the other hand, Türkiye differs from those two countries in some points regarding to context.

Keywords

Elementary school, Curriculum, History teaching, Contex, History consciousness