Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s books
The aim of this study is to determine how the theme of death in preschool children’s literature is perceived by preschool teachers. For this purpose, four children’s books were examined by nine preschool teachers and their opinions were recorded. The research was carried out with a qualitative appro...
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| description | The aim of this study is to determine how the theme of death in preschool children’s literature is perceived by preschool teachers. For this purpose, four children’s books were examined by nine preschool teachers and their opinions were recorded. The research was carried out with a qualitative approach in accordance with the phenomenological research design. The examined books were evaluated in terms of the treatment of the mourning process, the treatment of the concept of death and formal characteristics. The results showed that the preschool teacher’s personal perceptions, prejudices, feelings and thoughts, apart from the scientific criteria, play a significant role in the handling of the books on the subject of death. On the other hand, it was seen that there is no consensus on the transfer of taboo topics such as death by the preschool teachers with correct and scientifically valid methods. For this reason, experimental studies can be planned and effective teaching methods can be developed on the teaching of taboo subjects, especially death, to preschool children. It can be argued that more research is needed to identify the sources of perceptions of teachers who play a leading role in teaching taboo topics to children, and according to the results of this study, they should receive more professional training on teaching taboo topics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8107998664124e289972a36abc01703e2023-11-04T08:51:38ZengOctagon Education ServicesJournal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology2687-37882023-10-0153284610.33902/jpsp.202319688Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s booksHüseyin Öztürk0Evren Erzen1Faculty of Education, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, TürkiyeFaculty of Education, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, TürkiyeThe aim of this study is to determine how the theme of death in preschool children’s literature is perceived by preschool teachers. For this purpose, four children’s books were examined by nine preschool teachers and their opinions were recorded. The research was carried out with a qualitative approach in accordance with the phenomenological research design. The examined books were evaluated in terms of the treatment of the mourning process, the treatment of the concept of death and formal characteristics. The results showed that the preschool teacher’s personal perceptions, prejudices, feelings and thoughts, apart from the scientific criteria, play a significant role in the handling of the books on the subject of death. On the other hand, it was seen that there is no consensus on the transfer of taboo topics such as death by the preschool teachers with correct and scientifically valid methods. For this reason, experimental studies can be planned and effective teaching methods can be developed on the teaching of taboo subjects, especially death, to preschool children. It can be argued that more research is needed to identify the sources of perceptions of teachers who play a leading role in teaching taboo topics to children, and according to the results of this study, they should receive more professional training on teaching taboo topics.https://www.j-psp.com/download/teaching-death-in-turkiye-the-theme-of-death-in-illustrated-childrens-books-13790.pdfdeathchildren literatureteachers’ opinionsdeath educationperception of death |
| spellingShingle | Hüseyin Öztürk Evren Erzen Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s books Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology death children literature teachers’ opinions death education perception of death |
| title | Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s books |
| title_full | Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s books |
| title_fullStr | Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s books |
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| title_short | Teaching death in Türkiye: The theme of death in illustrated children’s books |
| title_sort | teaching death in turkiye the theme of death in illustrated children s books |
| topic | death children literature teachers’ opinions death education perception of death |
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