Recent years have witnessed an internal disturbance and an environment of war in Syria which resulted in a dense immigration from

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of the eighth grade students regarding the concept of migration covered in the 6 th and 7 th grades social studies curriculum. To this end, the metaphors produced by the students in regard to this concept and the pictures/cartoons drawn by them about it were examined. Survey model was used in this study. Qualitative research techniques considered suitable for triangulation (collecting data via metaphors and document analysis) were used together. The study group consisted of 334 eight grade students (176 males and 158 females) attending secondary schools located in the central districts of Ankara, Kilis, and Gaziantep provinces in the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. The participants were randomly selected through purposeful sampling. The data obtained from the participants were analyzed and interpreted through content analysis. Results indicated that most of the participants, whether or not they had been exposed to migration, perceived migration as "compulsion", "continuity", and "cause of separation". Another result of this study was that especially the participants exposed to migration perceived migration as "time-dependent differentiation" and "unhappiness" and thought that migration is an undesirable temporary event that occurs at certain times and disappears after a while.

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The purpose of this study is to determine the views of social studies teachers on branch teachers’ committee meetings (BTCM). This study utilized a qualitative method, phenomenological design. The sample of the research is composed of 16 teachers working in public secondary schools in the central district of Karabük province during the spring school term of 2016-2017and the participants were selected by convenient sampling method under purposeful sampling methods. The data of the study were collected through a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers. Content analysis was used to analyze the data obtained from the participants. The results revealed that social studies teachers’ views on BTCMs were collected under four main themes entitled “things planned in BTCMs”, “decisions made in BTCMs”, “BTCMs in terms of the quality of social sciences teaching in school” and “The effectiveness of BTCMs”. Results of the study were discussed in line with the relevant literature and a number of suggestions were presented.

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