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The purpose of this study is to examine graduate theses and trends in them comprehensively in terms of different variables conducted in social studies education in the context of history and history education in Turkey. For this purpose, a qualitative research approach, which includes document analysis, was used in the study. The examined 72 theses were obtained from YÖK national thesis center. In the analysis process of the data, first of all, an imprint document / thesis definition catalog containing the research sub-questions of each thesis was created by the researchers. 72 theses were transferred to the MAXQDA 2020 qualitative data analysis program with their tags created from T1 to T72 for content analysis. In the analysis program, the data were transformed into themes and categories in line with sub-purposes, coded and analyzed. Theses were analyzed according to the variables of year and thesis type, university variable, the subjects discussed, purposes, the research methods used, the study group / sample, the data collection tools, the methods used in the analysis of the data and the recommendations. In the postgraduate theses examined, it was seen that the most theses studies were conducted in 2019, teachers' opinions were mostly preferred in teaching the subjects, theses are quite insufficient in terms of methodology and most of them do not have this section, Marmara, Gazi and Niğde universities were the universities with the highest number of theses, qualitative research designs and interview forms were used the most and suggestions were generally made to teachers.

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