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The purpose of the research is to explore how Social Information teachers evaluate the concept of modernization and their views on the stages of modernization in Turkey. Furthermore, the goal of national education is to study the methods and techniques used by teachers who teach their approaches in the educational sense and the historical thinking skills necessary to this goal in the teaching of Social Information. In the study, using the structured and semi-structured conversation technique, social information teachers were attempted to reveal the perceptions of modernization. The research work group consists of 31 Social Information teachers working in 22 high schools in İzmir Menemen district in the 2012-2013 academic year. Examples are used for the purposes of the study. The research shows that almost all of the Social Information teachers see modernization as a necessity; at this point they think that the revolutions under the Atatürk period have an important role in modernization. Unfortunately, almost all teachers don’t see Turkey as a modern country today. This is the reason why Turkey is not a democratic country. With regard to the scale of the application, teachers consider that education in the school is insufficient in terms of the goal of educating the contemporary individual. Social Information is also attracted to the attention that teachers apply to more known methods when transmitting subjects, and that they do not apply different methods and techniques.

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