Abstract:

With the transition to primary school after pre-school education, it can be clearly said that the Turkish lessons that all students encounter for the first time in the teaching process, which are based on life science and first literacy skills, have a direct effect on the basic life skills and school adaptation processes that are aimed to be acquired by individuals. Both lessons have been the subject of many academic studies since they took place in the programs in terms of their missions, and it has become a field that researchers frequently work on. So much so that, when many researches are examined, it is understood that they aim to provide important assistance to curriculum development experts and teachers who are practitioners. From this point of view, it is the general purpose of this study to be able to examine the thesis studies conducted for both courses at the level of postgraduate education, in terms of basic research dimensions. In the research conducted with the document review technique in accordance with the qualitative research method, the doctoral theses completed on life studies lesson and first reading and writing subjects were included in the scope of the YÖK’s National Thesis Center and accessible in the Proquest database. The research data obtained depending on the dimensions determined in accordance with the aims of the study were presented in the form of tables after being digitized with frequency and percentage values. Based on the analysis of the findings, it was determined that the doctoral dissertations examined within the scope of the research were mainly carried out for the purposes of gaining skills, determining the skill level, testing the effectiveness of the method and technique used, and that the researchers preferred highly mixed method and patterns based on this method. It was also observed that, in the experimental design and action researches, results were obtained mainly in the direction of increasing the academic achievement level.

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