{"title":"Bibliometric Profile of Doctoral Dissertations on Minstrel Literature in Türkiye Between 2013-2023","authors":"Emre DAĞAŞAN","doi":"10.53048/johass.1374361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1374361","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to present the bibliometric profiles of doctoral dissertations completed in the field of Minstrel Literature in Türkiye between 2013 and 2023. The study was designed using a descriptive content analysis design, which is one of the non-interactive patterns within qualitative research approaches, in terms of its process and subject. The population of the study consists of doctoral dissertations on the topic of \"Minstrel Literature\" in the category of theses in the YÖK National Dissertations Center database. The year limitation has been extended to cover the years 2013-2023. As a result of the scanning, 29 theses related to the subject were identified and included in the analysis. According to the results; a significant majority of the studies were completed in 2015, and there was a noticeable decrease in the number of theses in 2016 and 2021. Atatürk University and Erciyes University have hosted the most doctoral theses in Minstrel Literature, becoming significant centers in this field. A significant portion of the doctoral theses were supervised by academicians with the title of Professor. When examining the gender distribution of researchers, it is observed that male researchers produce more theses in this field. The Department of Turkish Language and Literature is the academic department that focuses the most on doctoral theses. The length of doctoral theses is generally in the range of 400-499 pages. \"Minstrel tradition,\" \"Minstrel,\" and \"Music\" are the most commonly used and emphasized keywords in these studies. The recent decrease in dissertations intensity suggests the need for more research in this field.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"37 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135320718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early Childhood Educators’ Views, Sentiments, Attitudes, Concerns and Practices Related to Students with Special Needs","authors":"Şule ALICI, Melek KELEŞ","doi":"10.53048/johass.1362554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1362554","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to investigate early childhood educators’ sentiments, attitudes, and concerns towards students with special needs, their efficacy related to inclusive education practices, and how they follow students with special needs in their classrooms. This study uses a convergent/parallel mixed methods research design, including quantitative and qualitative research designs. The sample size of the quantitative part of the study is 135 early childhood educators. The participants for the qualitative part are ten early childhood teachers working with special needs children. The quantitative part of the study uses the scales of sentiments, attitudes, and concerns related to inclusive education and teacher efficacy during inclusive education practices. For the qualitative part of the study, researchers developed interview questions to collect data related to inclusive practices in early childhood education. The quantitative data is analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney, and Spearman’s rho correlation non-parametric tests. The qualitative data is analyzed with content analysis and open coding. Based on the findings, there is no relationship between sentiments, attitudes, and concerns related to inclusive education and teachers’ efficacy during inclusive education practices. On the other hand, it is found that there is a weak correlation between the dimensions of sentiments attitudes and concerns and teachers’ efficacy and its dimensions. In light of the findings derived from qualitative data, teachers feel less unsatisfied about firstly children with special needs and their parents, then themselves, and finally, typically developed children and their parents during the adaptation process.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135320719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depicting the Learning and Teaching Process in Social Studies Classrooms: Middle School Students’ Drawings","authors":"Fatma Özge BAYRAM, Döndü ÖZDEMİR","doi":"10.53048/johass.1358107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1358107","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to determine and examine how secondary school students reflect the social studies lesson learning-teaching process on their drawings. One of the qualitative research methods, the phenomenology, was used. The data were obtained from the drawings of the students and the explanations for these drawings. Maximum variation sampling was used to determine the participants, and 118 students studying in the 5th, 6th, and 7th grades of three secondary schools in the central district of Isparta province participated in the research. The content analysis technique was used to analyse the research data. It has been determined that the students’ drawings mostly reflect classroom learning environments, traditional ordering, teacher-centred and expression-oriented methods, and listening-oriented student behaviours. In addition, it was determined that the expectation of a lesson held in the open air, where the students were more fun, games and activities were used, came to the fore.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determination of Critical Thinking Dispositions and Communication Skills of Gifted Middle School Students","authors":"Güliz KAYMAKCI, Nurver ŞAHİN DÜĞENCİ, Nurgül KORKMAZ","doi":"10.53048/johass.1357412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1357412","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study is to determine the critical thinking dispositions and communication skills of gifted students, and to investigate whether these students’ critical thinking dispositions and communication skills vary significantly by some demographic variables. This study used the descriptive survey model. The sample, which was determined by using maximum variation sampling, consists of 326 gifted students attending BİLSEMs. To collect data, the “California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory”, the “Communication Skills Evaluation Scale” with “Information Form” were used. In the analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and correlation analysis techniques were employed. It was seen that the critical thinking level of the students is medium and communication skills level is high. Their critical thinking does not vary significantly by the variables of gender, birth order, grade level and family type. However, their level of critical thinking was determined to vary significantly by the variables of the number of siblings and mother’s/father’s education level. Their communication skills vary significantly by the variables of gender, grade level, mother’s/father’s education level and the number of siblings but does not vary significantly by the variables of birth order and family type.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziynet BAHADIR, Ferda ALPER AY, Faruk AY, Gülüşan ÖZGÜN BAŞIBÜYÜK
{"title":"Evaluation of Life Satisfaction Levels of Elderly Immigrants Who Migrated From Afghanistan, Syria, And Iraq to Sivas (Turkey)","authors":"Ziynet BAHADIR, Ferda ALPER AY, Faruk AY, Gülüşan ÖZGÜN BAŞIBÜYÜK","doi":"10.53048/johass.1357345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1357345","url":null,"abstract":"Little is known about the elderly who are subject to forced migration, and studies on older migrants are very limited. The aim of this study was to determine the socio-demographic characteristics and evaluation of life satisfaction levels of elderly immigrants who migrated from Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq to Türkiye. A cross-sectional research design was carried out by collecting data from 87 elderly immigrants in Sivas between 01.12.2021 and 28.02.2022 2021. In the study, descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test and ANOVA test were used to evaluate the data. A significant difference was found in the level of life satisfaction according to the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants according to the country they migrated to. It was determined that the participants' self, social satisfaction and general satisfaction levels were higher, and their relationship satisfaction levels were relatively low, respectively. Local and international efforts should be increased to improve the adaptation of the elderly immigrants to the cultural differences of the country they migrated to, and to improve their life and relationship satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bahadır Ahmet ATİLA, Osman Kürşat YORGANCI, Mustafa Özgün HARMANKAYA
{"title":"Opinions of Foreign Convicts Learning Turkish in Penal Institutions on Learning Turkish","authors":"Bahadır Ahmet ATİLA, Osman Kürşat YORGANCI, Mustafa Özgün HARMANKAYA","doi":"10.53048/johass.1348927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1348927","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of convicts who are studying Turkish as a foreign language in penal facilities about learning Turkish. Of qualitative research designs a basic qualitative research design was employed in the study, and the data were gathered through semi-structured interviews. The study was carried out with a cohort of 10 foreign convicts in a penal facility located in Ankara. The obtained data underwent content analysis and were subsequently presented in the form of tables. The findings of the research revealed that foreign convicts and detainees aim to learn Turkish for reasons of force majeure, integration, social factors, and future-oriented expectations. Force majeure factors encompassed essential humanitarian needs (such as official and private communication, daily necessities, emotional sharing, healing, health, social and spiritual support, and economic needs) as well as legal needs. Integration-related reasons included considerations of the attitudes of Turkish citizens, the need for belonging, and the need to adapt to prison life. Reasons stemming from social and personal factors included the need to know new people, acculturation, and education. Future-oriented expectations comprised the desire to reside in Türkiye, the desire for an early release, and familial responsibilities. Additionally, the study revealed that convicts learning Turkish as a foreign language encountered challenges linked to the linguistic characteristics of Turkish, personal problems, and constraints during the language learning process.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135343486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems Encountered in Distance Initial Literacy Teaching During the Pandemic Period (Covid-19)","authors":"Dursun AKSU","doi":"10.53048/johass.1363318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1363318","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine the problems encountered in the period of distance initial literacy teaching during the pandemic based on the first-grade primary school teachers' opinions. In this qualitative study, data were collected through the interview technique. The study group of the study was determined by the criterion sampling method. The study group consist of 11 classroom teachers who taught initial literacy teaching during pandemic period. The data were analyzed by content analysis using Maxqda software. The results of this study show that problems encountered in the distance initial literacy teaching during the pandemic period were grouped under three themes: \"Technology\", \"Interaction,\" and \"Initial Literacy Teaching Process\". According to the opinions of classroom teachers, there were problems with internet access during this period. There are insufficient educational technology devices such as computers, tablet computers, etc. The competency of students and parents to use technology is quite insufficient. Students behaved arbitrarily on attendance to classes, and problems occurred in parental support, teacher-student communication, and teacher-parent communication. During the initial literacy teaching process, problems such as holding the pen incorrectly, not being able to organize the notebook, writing the letter incorrectly, not being able to understand and inability to combine sounds, and not being able to dictate were seen. Problems such as measurement and assessment problems, unable to feedback to students, and difficulty in following student progress were determined.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135343178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preschool Teachers' Sense of Humor and Children's Appreciation of Humor","authors":"Seda ESKİDEMİR MERAL, Elif GÖK","doi":"10.53048/johass.1357922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1357922","url":null,"abstract":"This study, which was conducted with 364 preschool children and 47 preschool teachers in order to determine the relationship between preschool teachers' sense of humor and children's appreciation of the value of humor in their classrooms, is a relational survey model. The data of the study were collected with \"Personal Information Form\", \"Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale- Updated Turkish Form\" used to determine teachers' sense of humor, \"Humor Observation Form'' prepared by the researcher to determine children's appreciation of the value of humor, and \"Humor Observation Form\" and used with a 5-minute video with examples suitable for the stages in Paul McGhee's humor development theory. It was determined that preschool teachers' sense of humor was at a good level, and there was no significant difference between teachers' sense of humor and teachers' age, class size, and age of children in their classes. It was determined that the sense of humor of teachers with a seniority of 11-15 years was significantly higher than those with a seniority of 16 years and above. It was determined that children's appreciation of the value of humor was at a moderate level, and there was no significant difference between the gender of the children and both their appreciation of the value of humor and their level of finding the video funny. It was determined that there was a significant difference between the ages of the children and both their appreciation of the value of humor and their level of finding the video funny. 61-72 month old children's levels of appreciating the value of humor and finding the video funny were higher than 48-60 month old children. It was determined that there was no significant relationship between teachers' sense of humor and children's appreciation of humor.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135343347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Direct and Indirect Effects of Positive Future Expectations on Psychological Well-Being of College Students: Quiet Ego as A Mediator","authors":"Duygu DİNÇER, Nur AKBULUT KILIÇOĞLU","doi":"10.53048/johass.1358124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1358124","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to examine the associations between positive future expectations, quiet ego, and psychological well-being among college students. It was hypothesized that there would be direct and indirect effects of positive future expectations on psychological well-being through quiet ego. The data was gathered from a sample consisting of 250 college students. Participants completed several instruments, namely, the Positive Future Expectation Scale, the Quiet Ego Scale, the Flourishing Scale, and the demographic information form. The analyses revealed that there is a significant direct effect of positive future expectations on psychological wellbeing. It was also found that there is a significant indirect effect of positive future expectations on psychological wellbeing via quiet ego. The obtained findings were discussed within the context of existing research. This study contributes to the expanding body of literature on psychological well-being by demonstrating that the quiet ego serves as a factor in explaining how positive future expectations are connected to psychological well-being.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Can A GIS Application Develop Geographical Skills of Students: The Case Dashboards","authors":"Erkan DÜNDAR","doi":"10.53048/johass.1358157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53048/johass.1358157","url":null,"abstract":"Geography is the user guide to the world. Thanks to geography, people should be able to perform all kinds of activities in their daily lives more efficiently and use geography in their future planning. However, for this, geographical knowledge should not be memorized; instead, it should be transformed into geographical skills. Geography teachers have a great duty in this regard. To develop geographical skills for students is a multidimensional process. Considering the expectations of today's students, one of the most appropriate tools that can be used in teaching these skills to students is dashboards, a technology based on geographic information systems. Dashboards can transform geographical information into maps, graphics, indicators, and lists thanks to their superior features, thus increasing their usability. Geography teachers' designing geography teaching processes using this technology will enable students to develop their geographical skills. However, at this point, it is seen that geography teachers are not sufficiently equipped in this regard, and examples are needed. In this study, it is aimed at explaining how dashboards can be used to teach five basic geographical skills known as asking geographical questions, collecting, organizing and analyzing geographical information, and answering geographical questions to students. In order to achieve this goal, a descriptive literature review, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. In light of the literature review, how dashboards can be used in the acquisition of five basic geographical skills is explained with examples, and suggestions on how dashboards can contribute more to the geography teaching process are given.","PeriodicalId":470135,"journal":{"name":"İnsan ve sosyal bilimler dergisi","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135343483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}