Abstract:In the 1950s in Turkey, textbooks held a crucial role in education and training. The Republic of Turkey, like many modern states, not only kept the principles and procedures of writing and reviewing textbooks very strict through the Board of Education but also took the debates and criticisms seriously. One of the examples of this is the debate about a visual in the Astronomy textbook written by Şerafettin Çintan, a mathematics teacher at Kabataş High School for Boys, which appeared in the Turkish press on 9-17… Show more
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