Abstract:

Individuals’ developing themselves globally and multi-dimensionally has been one of the crucial purposes of the education systems of several countries. According to this purpose, in Europe, the European Qualifications Framework was constituted to develop individuals. In our country, the Turkish Qualifications Framework was constituted in harmony with this framework. Eight key competences were determined in this framework constituted in our country. With the update of the curricula in our country in 2018, eight key competences were included in curricula within the scope of the life-long learning framework. One of the curricula consisting of the key competences is the Social Studies Lesson Curriculum (SSLC). In this context, to what extent the key competences included in the SSLC are related to the program is significant. For this reason, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between the gains in the 5th grade SSLC with the key competences in the study. The qualitative research model and document review method were employed in the research. The 2018 SSLC was determined as the data source of the research. The data analysis was performed with the descriptive data analysis technique. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the gains in the 5th grade SSLC were in harmony with the key competences included in the curriculum. It was determined that the gains having the relationship with social and civic competences were included, however, gains directly related to the competences of “communication in mother language” and communication in foreign languages were not included in the curriculum. In addition, it was observed that social and civic competences were associated with more learning fields than other competences.

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