Özet:

Early childhood is a period in which the foundations of personality development are put together with the fields of physical, cognitive, language, social and emotional development. In this period, the child begins to recognize himself first and then his close surroundings. In this process of recognition, the attitudes and behaviors of people around the child influence the child’s development of the concept of positive or negative self. The concept of self-development of the child has a significant impact on the development of personality. Therefore, it is important to study the studies on the concept of self, which is important for the development of children in early childhood, and to investigate their effects on children. In the studies of the field, it is found that there was no comprehensive analysis of the master’s and doctoral theses in the field of self-concept in early childhood. From this point to move, the research was aimed at studying the sub-graduate education theses made in Turkey in early childhood concerning the concept of self-education. The analysis of the postgraduate theses in the Turkish field related to the concept of self in the study is of a thematic imagery, is in the type of scanning model and the method of content analysis has been used. Without time limit in the study, the aim was to the existing studies until February 2019 when the scan of the area was carried out. In order to reach Turkish studies on the concept of self in early childhood, the Higher Education Institution Publishing Documentation Department's Thesis Scanning Database has been scanned. When scanning is done, the keywords are limited to "concept of self", "pre-school" and "pre-childhood". In the inclusion of the studies achieved as a result of the scan of the area, (a) the study was carried out in Turkey, (b) the publication in the form of a master's and doctoral thesis, (c) the sample of the childhood and (d) the criteria of having a full text were taken into account. The study examined a total of 18 postgraduate education theses, which were classified in early childhood and pre-school period as self-concept (n=5), self-perception (n=5) and self-respect (n=8) and found that this number was not sufficient for the development of the field. It is also determined that the postgraduate theses made in relation to self-sufficiency were made between the years 2004-2018, and that there were only three doctoral theses. The research method is determined as the most quantitative research was done and the scale/envanter was used. The lack of experimental studies and the lack of the number of scale adjustments or developments have been noted and the number has not been determined.

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