“…The studies in the field of social studies education, mostly aimed at determining the perceptions, attitudes and opinions of prospective teachers of social studies and history (Alagöz, 2014;Aynuz, 2020;Baloğlu Uğurlu & Doğan, 2016;Çepni & Geçit, 2020;Seçgin, 2019;Özüdoğru, 2022), teachers (Çopur, 2015;Günal & Kaya, 2016;Öztürk, 2017;Tuncer, 2018), and students (Arslan, 2019;Öztürk, 2022) regarding the controversial issues and the teaching of these topics. There are also some limited studies examining controversial issues in curricula (Tatar, 2018) and textbooks (Kirkit, 2021) and aiming to develop teacher competencies related to controversial issues (Avaroğulları, 2015). Studies on improving the use of controversial topics in social studies (Baki Pala, 2020;Özcan, 2021) are new and limited.…”