Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences

There is a nascent literature on the question of whether active learning methods, and in particular simulation methods, enhance student learning. In this article, the authors evaluate the utility of an international relations simulation in enhancing learning objectives. Student evaluations provide evidence that the si…

• KÜRŞAD ŞEYHMUS TURAN

In this qualitative research study, the author investigated social studies teachers' conceptions of history by conducting in-depth, semistructured interviews with 12 in-service teachers. Results indicated that participants tended to look at the outcome of historical knowledge construction without considering its proce…

• KAYA YILMAZ

This article presents a vision of effective and pedagogically meaningful history teaching and learning in schools. Bringing to the fore the lack of attention to the philosophy of history, the article first explains the philosophical and epistemological underpinnings of history or the perspectives on the nature of hist…

• KAYA YILMAZ

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This paper is based on a cross-national experimental study conducted among American, Turkish, Israeli-Jewish, and Israeli-Palestinian students using a computer game called “PeaceMaker.” The game is a highly realistic and complex simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PeaceMaker was used for educational and ex…

• ÇERAĞ ESRA ÇUHADAR

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• ÇERAĞ ESRA ÇUHADAR

Attacks on academic freedom in Turkey have become increasingly systematic in recent years and thousands of academics have been dismissed. This study reflects on the effects of this worsening repression through interviews with academics in the social sciences, both those dismissed and those still active in their profes…

• VEZİR AKTAŞ

This article reviews experiences from a large-scale student simulation, which concluded the Istanbul Conference on Mediation: Enhancing Peace through Mediation that took place in February 2012. We share insights on two unique aspects of the simulation. First, the paper examines a rare case where the simulation crossed…

• ŞADİYE MELTEM MÜFTÜLER BAÇ

Using Kolb's experimental learning model as a blueprint, the authors devise an active learning simulation to introduce students to general theories and concepts of international relations. Besides encompassing abstract theories and concepts, the simulation facilitates the development of critical and analytical thinkin…

• KÜRŞAD ŞEYHMUS TURAN

Transformations in scholarship, like in every other discipline, have happened in a globalizing world. In this context, the redefinition or the conceptualization of scholarship has great importance. In this study, first with historical transformation happening in higher education, the changing role of the scholarship h…

• MEHMET FIRAT

Purpose: This research aims at analyzing the attainments identified in the sociology curriculum for 11th grade implemented by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) in 2010, and the evaluation questions in the sociology textbook which was taught in the 2016-2017 academic year, based on the Structure of Observed Lea…

• SERKAN ÜNSAL

Using Kolb’s experimental learning model as a blueprint, the authors devise an active learning simulation to introduce students to general theories and concepts of international relations. Besides encompassing abstract theories and concepts, the simulation facilitates the development of critical and analytical thinkin…

• KÜRŞAD ŞEYHMUS TURAN