Özet:

The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of the use of Republican period poets and authors in school names in Turkey. The data set of the research, which was conducted with the descriptive survey model, consists of “primary”, “secondary” and “high schools” affiliated to the “Ministry of National Education” in 81 provinces. Among these educational institutions, 957 schools bearing the names of 69 different poets and/or authors who lived/performed in the Republican period were analyzed by content analysis technique. According to the findings obtained in the research, the distribution of the number of schools bearing the names of poets and authors according to geographical regions is “Marmara Region” (f=255), “Central Anatolia Region” (f=155), “The Southeastern Anatolia Region” (f=137) and “Eastern Anatolia Region” (f=132) ranked first, while İstanbul (f=148), Ankara (f=52), Diyarbakır (f=32), Van (f=30), Konya (f=27), Kocaeli (f=26), Bursa (f=25) and İzmir (f=25) stood out in the distribution by city. The ranking of the schools with the names of poets and authors according to their educational level was secondary school (f=379), primary school (f=359) and high school (f=219). According to the evaluation of four different periods based on the death dates of the authors, eighteen each in the 1950-1974, 1975-1999 and 2000-2023 periods; It was determined that 15 authors in the 1923-1949 period were preferred in school names. Mehmet Akif Ersoy (f=459), Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (f=96), Ziya Gökalp (f=48), Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (f=41), Mehmet Akif İnan (f=36), Cahit Zarifoğlu (f=33), Cemil Meriç (f=30), Arif Nihat Asya (f=24) and Sezai Karakoç (f=22) were identified as the authors whose names were most frequently given to schools.

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