Özet:

In this study the importance of giving place to children’s literature in Social Studies in the USA and Turkey has been described upon briefly. It has been observed that social studies instruction fields in the USA have highly affluent studies in regard to making use of children’s literature. The new Social Studies Curriculum put into practice in Turkey in 2005 have been found to be better than the old curriculum. However, according to practices carried out it has also been observed that the use of literature materials had limited contribution during class application and in the instruction books prepared for teacher candidates. It is noticed that the importance given to the subject isn’t still sufficient enough. Particularily, it was determined that the academic studies regarding the issue couldn’t proceed beyond offering general ideas to teachers due to the fact that they approached the issue totally with a benefit-advantage approach.

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