Social Studies and Textbooks Covering Jewish / Jewish Imagery

Abstract

The primary aim of this study was to reveal how the phenomenon of Jews is represented in the course books of the social studies course and other classes that include the contents of this course throughout the historical process. Document analysis technique, a qualitative data gathering method, was employed in the study. The data sources were the seventh and eighth grade course books published between 1928-2017, and the sample consisted of 30 course books. The data were analyses through content analysis, and texts that imply discrimination agains the Jews were not encountered in the course books published in the period before September 12 coup in 1980. However, marginalisation in the expressions was found to increase starting from 1980s. The sub-dimension that was exposed the stereotypic approaches the most was the State of Israel.