Abstract:

In modern societies, popular games are seen as past-specific cultural values. People’s games, which are a real reflection of culture, are transferred from generation to generation as a cultural heritage. People's games carry the characteristic of being a mirror of time and society in terms of function, content, aesthetics and communication. Figures often tell about everyday life, natural events, women's men's relationships, their battles, or they rely on animal imitation. In fact, our public games are informative texts about our past. Everyone has a story thrown into visual movements, and to be able to understand by resolving requires the ability to read visually. Turkish folk games have features that can be used in education with their movement-based presentations and rich structural styles. In this context, the use of popular games as visual materials, including the wealth of our cultural history, will also be the continuation of our identity and the established connection to our future. One of the important criteria for a nation to reach a civilized and contemporary level is properly proportionate to its sensitivity in possession of its cultural values, such as the superiority in science and technology and the achievements in the technological field, and to its ability to use these values to the extent necessary in the educational system. In this context, the inclusion of Turkish people’s games, which are visual cultural objects, in the educational processes is very important and necessary. This study was designed to explore a popular game using the method of conversation from the qualitative research methods, and to reveal that the meaning of the movements and the content of the game can be used in the context of visual reading in the Turkish program.

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