Abstract:

Textbooks are without doubt the main sources of education and training activities. Textbooks, which maintain their indispensability every semester, are the most frequently referenced, serve as the main material, and are the main operators of the curriculum, must have certain qualifications. The aim of this study is to analyze the 7th grade social studies textbook’s characteristics according to social studies teachers in terms of content, language, narration and style, learning-teaching, assessment and evaluation, technique-design and arrangement. The study was carried out as a case study model which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of the study consists of 30 social studies teachers, selected through the maximum variation sampling method, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods, who worked in secondary schools affiliated with Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate for National Education in the 2021-2022 academic year. The data of the study were obtained through the semi-structured interview form. The obtained data were analyzed with the content analysis method. As a result of the obtained data, it was reported that the social studies textbook was quite dense and detailed in terms of content, that the texts in the textbook are very long and the language used in the book is simple and comprehensible.

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