Estetik Değer Oluşturmada Masalların Rolü: Türk Masalları Örneği

Bireylerin yasamlarini mutlu ve huzurlu gecirmelerinde onlarin cocukluklarinda bu guzellikleri gorme ve yasamalarinin etkili oldugu gorulmustur. Ayni zamanda bu donemde dinlenen ve okunan materyallerin de hayatta kalici izler biraktigi ve bireyin gelecegini sekillendirmede onemli roller ustlendigi bilinmektedir. Gecmisten bugune insanlarin eglenmesini ve egitilmesini saglamanin yani sira estetik duygularinin gelismesine de katki yapan masallarin gunumuz cocuklarina da onemli katkilar saglayacagi dusunulmektedir. Sahip oldugu dil ve anlatim ozellikleriyle masallarin basta bireylerin iyi birer dinleyici olup guzel konusmalari, topluma yararli insan olmalari, yasami ve cevreyi guzellestirmeleri, planli ve duzenli yasam surmeleri, edebi zevk kazanmalari, duygu, dusunce ve kavram dunyalarini gelistirmelerine katki yapacagi kestirilebilir. Arastirmada nitel arastirma tekniklerinden dokuman incelemesi teknigi kullanilmistir. Calisma grubunun tespitinde amacli ornekleme tekniklerinden olcut ornekleme kullanilmistir. Arastirmada, yerli ve yabanci literaturde yer alan eserler ile bazi onemli masal turundeki eserler incelenmistir. Eserlerin estetik egitimle iliskili olup olmadigina bakilmis, estetik egitime isaret eden cumle veya paragraflar secildikten sonra kendi aralarinda siniflandirilmistir. Daha sonra da masallarla estetik egitiminin nasil yapilabilecegi sorusuna cevap aranmistir.  Anahtar Sozcukler: Estetik egitimi, estetik, masal, estetik ve masallar, cocuk edebiyati Abstract Underlying reason of individuals’ spending their lives peacefully and happily is their having seen and lived these kinds of beauties in their childhoods. At the same time, materials read and listened in this period of life leave permanent marks in life and play an important role in shaping the individual’s future. From past to present, tales which provide people to be educated and have fun as well as contribute to the development of aesthetic senses are also expected to provide important contributions for today’s children. With their language and expression features, tales can be estimated to contribute individuals’ being good listeners, eloquent speakers, and beneficial to society, beautfying their lives and environment, leading a planned and organized life, gaining literary taste, and enhancing their feelings, ideas and concepts. In the research, one of qualitative research techniques, document analysis was used. The criterion sampling which is one of the purposive sampling techniques was used for determining the extent of the study group. In the study, some works of local and foreign literature and some important works of the tale genre were analyzed. Whether the works were associated with aesthetic education was searched and then sentence and paragraphs pointing to the aesthetic education were selected, next, they were classified among themselves. Later on, the answer of the question of “how aesthetic education can be made by the tales” has been sought.