Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Türk Akademik Yayınlar Dergisi, cilt.8, sa.3, ss.503-523, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
The education system should be updated in accordance with the needs and should be open to innovations. Teaching methods and materials should also adapt to these changes. The abolition of teacher’s guidebooks as of the 2018-2019 academic year has had significant effects on the education system. The purpose of this study is to examine the views of social studies teachers on the abolition of teacher’s guidebooks. The participants of the study, which was conducted with qualitative research method, were 15 social studies teachers, 4 females and 11 males, who started working in Erzincan before 2018. Data were collected with an 8-item semi-structured interview form in the autumn semester of the 2023-2024 academic year and evaluated by content analysis method. The results show that teachers’ guidebooks are used at least at one stage of the course, and this has both positive and negative effects on professional development, time management, freedom and creativity. In addition, it was found that teachers needed guidebooks more in the first years of the profession and did not use daily plans. In this context, the question of whether guidebooks should be redistributed has led to the conclusions that they should be redistributed, should not be redistributed, and should be revised and then redistributed.