Özet:

Values are mostly the affective features that regulate the social life and construct the interpersonal communication and interaction. The process of value transfer that starts firstly in the family, is carried out by the school afterwards. At first, while children’s physical and mental learning were emphasized, it is seen that the importance of value education has increased recently. Especially, the acquisition of universal values is so important for children’s having universal vision. Values education is taught via certain courses at schools. Social studies lesson is one of those through which values education is taught for elementary school students. Therefore, Social Studies Textbooks for the 3rd Grade of Elementary Students (the 1st and the 2nd) by Evrensel İletişim Yayınları were analyzed in terms of fundamental universal values. Document survey model, which is among the qualitative research methods, was used in this study. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data. Firstly, code guide about the fundamental universal values was formed. Thereby, the validity and the reliability of the study was tried to increase. The texts and the pictures in the textbooks were analyzed with the help of MAXQDA 11 program. Relying on the findings, the suggestions about the social studies textbooks were made.

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