Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
inSEA World Congress 2023, Çanakkale, Türkiye, 4 - 08 Eylül 2023, ss.40
In Turkey, there have
been significant developments in order to increase the quality of textbooks in
recent years. One of the remarkable qualities of the MEB's textbooks is to
include disabled representations in the context of social representation.
Despite the increasing disabled population in the world, these individuals
continue to face discrimination, inequality and poverty. For this reason, it is
important to gain the right attitudes and behaviors for the disabled individual
from a young age. On the other hand, although today's media tools take an
important role in children's learning, books are still primary sources for
children. In this respect, considering the social awareness processes of
disabled individuals, the determination of how much and how to include disabled
individuals in children's books was deemed worthy of investigation. This
determination will enable us to learn about books that may be the vehicle to
increase individual differences as of early childhood. In this context, the
lists of the most sales of the most popular sites selling online books in
Turkey were examined at the end of 2022. From these lists, 200 illustrated
children's books appealing to early childhood were included in the research.
Descriptive analysis of the data obtained from the study conducted as a
screening research continues. With the results of the research, it is expected
to draw attention to the social representation in the children's book paintings
and to raise awareness on this issue.