The curriculum of Social Studies has adapted a student centred approach. In this process, understanding the students’perceptions towards Social Studies curriculum is of great importance. The purpose of this study is to understand the student perceptions towards The Social Studies...

This is a study designed and conducted to analyse how TVnews of American occupation of Iraq was covered in prime news programmes of Turkey’s TVchannels We watched the American occupation which was based on the alleged chemical weapons threat and on a legal ground of bringing democracy to...

In scope of this study which is titled “Psychomythological Terms: Use of Mythology in Psychology Literatureâ€, the reflections of mythology, a system of symbols specific to human nature, on the psychological literature are examined. In this regard, firstly the mythology phenomenon is...

This study aims to theoretically overview the most significant contemporary literature on nation and nationalism. In other words, it focuses on the theoretical approaches to the nature of nation and nationalism, and discusses the following questions: Are nations ancient, or of modern provenance?...

This study examines writing skills of 25 hearing impaired students who attend mainstream schools at 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades and factors which might be effective on writing skill levels. The effective factors included degree of hearing loss, the age of onset of hearing aid use, duration...

The experience of death is mysterious because death is experienced once and gone with the dead person. This fact sometimes desired and usually feared has always hold its importance in literature. Authors’approach to death has always been different in the history of Literature. The way of...

This descriptive study as partof qualitative methods explains the relationships between the terms “forming public opinion†and “agenda settingâ€. Since these two terms areperceived verysimilar in Turkish, in terms of their similarities and differences that is the most asked...

In this study, we try find out if there is a role of television on the people’s per- ception of the world and their characterization of the social reality. In other words, we investigate the television’s cultivation role. To investigate the television’s cultivation role, we...

Turkey applied for membership of the European Union (EU) in 1959 and gained the title of “candidate country†in 1999. Furthermore, in order to meet the criteria set in the Copenhagen Summit of the EU, Turkey has been shown progress to pursue the harmonisation of legislation and...

Functional academic skills need to be taught to students with intellectual disabilities in order to prepare them for independent living. Functional academic skills arethose utilized for implementing daily living activities. Basic math (money, time, facts) and reading-writing are functional...