ASOS journal

12-22

Authors: Aydın KIZILASLAN

How to help student overcome this difficulty is main focus of scholar One of the most acceptable and applicable method to teach science is inquiry-based learning (IBL) is embedded in constructivism by which, knowledge is constructed in the mind of the learner and useful knowledge is never transferred intact. The purpose of this study was to analyze students’ opinion about the effects of the IBL activities held in analytical chemistry laboratory. For this purpose, students engage spring semester analytical chemistry laboratory were chosen and the data about students’ opinion toward guided- inquiry based learning were collected after performing laboratory experiment through audiotaped semi- structured interviews. Consequently, the inquiry based learning activities were seen to contribute the development of students’ skill of scientific process and also develop students’ attitude toward science. Impressing result is that most of students are willing to be part of inquiry- based laboratory activities.

35-45

Authors: Gökçe DİŞLEN

Motivation has been centre of attention among teachers throughout the years because it constitutes the backbone of learning process. Learning is a complicated and dynamic process, and learning in real sense gets completed through motivation. Since will to learn builds one of the basic elements of learning, students take an important step on the road to learning through motivation. However, students may sometimes lose their willingness and interest towards lesson, which puts a major barrier in front of effective language learning. Therefore, this study is concerned with lack of motivation. To begin with, this study explores the reasons of disinterest students display towards language-learning. Next, it dwells upon the ways of promoting motivation of the students showing reluctance against foreign language learning. The teachers and students in a high school were the participants of this study. The data were collected through classroom observation, interview with teachers and questionnaire to students. Key Words: lack of motivation, foreign language learning, promoting motivation

62-68

Authors: Rahil NECEFOV

The article presents the influence of the Medieval Philosophy of the Islamic cultural region on the formation and development of the West-European philosophy. Referring to the researches of the scholars from England, Turkey, Russia and Iran it identifies the place and role of Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’) and Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna’s) legacy in the formation and development of the philosophy and independent thought in Medieval Europe. The article points out the special role of Averroes’ and Avicenna’s ideas in the history of the world cultural legacy which they played in the establishment of the first faculties of philosophy at the Universities in France and Italy. Keywords Avicenna, Averroism, Universities of France and Italy.

87-101

Authors: Oktay Salih AKBAY

Until 1970’s, Middle East was low of interest to Turkey. Since the mid-1970’s the importance of Middle East to Turkey has increased gradually along with Turkey’s increased importance to Middle Eastern nations. In this study, Turkey's economic relations with the Middle East countries was evaluated with a special emphasise on trade. The current political and ideological structures in the Middle East region largely determine the economic relations between Turkey and the Middle East nations. In this regard, The future of the economic relations between Turkey and the Middle East will be influenced by new ideological and poitical climate of the region after the Arab Spring. Keywords Turkey, Middle-eastern economies, foreign trade, Arab Spring

112-124

Authors: Necati CEMALOĞLU, Elif DAŞCI, Fatih ŞAHİN

The purpose of this study is to determine the causes of organizational silence experienced by primary school teachers.This research was structured with qualitative research approach. Study group of this study consists of four primary schools teachers as determined by a snowball or chain sampling method. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaires from 4 participants and were analyzed using content analysis technique.As a result of the research, organizational silence is experienced by primary school teachers is derived from administrative, organizational, work-related, and relational reasons.Teachers thoughts about it would be useless to talk because of relational reasons, and school administrators seem to be interested in the so-called because of administrative reasons lead to organizational silence. According to participants, to deal with organizational silence, to be more active and open to new ideas, emphasis on individuality, to have a conciliatory approach, and selecting the practitioners of the profession from willing and voluntary people are required. Keywords Organizational silence, teacher, copingwith silence, organizationalpsychology

132-148

Authors: Necla DAĞ

Utopias take an important place in world literature and they are products of thoughts of escaping from the undesired world. Utopias named as earth paradises are named as earth hells, distopia or anti-utopia where the opposite situation is in question. Island, a term that cannot be overlooked when utopias are the subject, attracts attention in all but utopic works. In Zulfu Livaneli’s so-called work Son Ada we will search in this study, island is also choosen as settlement. The life on island which changes from utopia to distopia becomes unsufferable in time and the last places of settlement are exterminated as a result of man’s intervention in nature. Although Sevinc Cokum’s book Cok Yapraklı İliskiler that we will compare with Son Ada novel carries an utopic feature; as it narrates events taking part in an unknown time, some characters and events carry utopic elements. The idea frequently stressed in both novels is that thought freedom which is the most important feature seperating man from the other creatures cannot be eradicated. Keywords utopia, island intervention.

155-167

Authors: Fahrettin KORKMAZ - Birsen BAĞÇECİ - Nafiye Nur MEŞE - Serkan ÜNSAL

The purpose of this study is to examine the problems encountered in the process of teacher training in Turkey (1923–1954). It is a cross-sectional study. The role of the teachers fort he development of a country can not be denied. Teachers have very important roles for the next generations. Therefore, the quality of the education the teachers have in pre-service process directly affects the education process of the next generation. This increases the importance of pre-service teachers’ training. In this study, the problems in teacher training between the years of 1923 and 1954 is examined and tried to be reflected in detail. Very different trials and the results of these trials held during this painful period are tried to be examined in the study. The trials were either short or long peiod. The experience from the Republican period to 1950s show that teacher training politics should be kept away from short-term political struggles and become a state policy. Keywords Teacher, Teacher Training Problems, Teacher Training in Turkey, Village Institutes, the Republican

182-217

Authors: Sabri KARADOĞAN - Saadettin TONBUL

The Adiyaman basin is situated in the tectonic-orogenic foulded belt of the Southhern part of Turkey Anatolia. It has many geomorphological features due to the fact that this area have been subjected tectonic mevements leading to the overthrust, faulting, folding activities. These tectonic movements produced different geomorphic unites (erosion surface, terraces, alluvial fans) and/or structural topographical forms such as monoclinal structure. Also formed karst landforms on limestone rocks. The Southern Taurus Mountains extending in the northern part of the study area had formed as a result of the Arabian and Anatolian plates collusion. Some metamorphic and/or Mesozoik terrains are found as a nappe on the younger strata. The uplifted areas locating in the eastern part of the study area have been deeply dissected by the streams and rivers connecting to the Atatürk Dam Lake. The materials which transported by fluvial erosion have been accumulated on the syclinal basin and foredeep basin locating the southern parts. The deformation to be seen within the young sedimentary deposits indicates the existence of the active tectonic movements. Keywords Geomrphology, Adiyaman Basin, Euphrates River.

226-237

Authors: Çağdaş DEMREN

Violence is a reality of daily life of a person. It comprises all spaces and it occurs along the time which we live in. It is hard to explain and in the past there were different kinds of efforts to explain and to exhibit it. In philosophy or in social sciences some philosophers and social scientists try to built some theories about it. But this efforts are never enough to figure it out. But the important thing is not to set up a new theory about a violence on the contrary to change our point of view about violence. We suggest that we would think the reality and the continuum of violence as a language. Because it has a spesific structure and grammer. When other languages are invalid, it appears. Violence exists as only a single language. It is a process which is constituted in an interactional domain. It is permenant, it waits in its potentiality. İt is always with us. The most important aspect of violence is that it transforms the person applying it. In this circumstances the most important thing is the relation between violence and conscience. Conscience always exists with violence in dialectical interrelation. In this article, we try to analyse this dialectictical interrelation by different examples which we choose in a mixture of philosophical, anthropological and cultural studies perspective. Keywords violence, language of violence, conscience, interactionality, existence

258-269

Authors: Tahsin YAPRAK

Metafiction, which is accepted as the most distinctive characteristics of the postmodern novel at the present time, is a set of techniques which makes highlighting the fiction and presenting writing process of the novel as the actual theme of the novel possible. Having been firstly used in 1970, metafiction had also been used in romantic and realistic/naturalistic novels – despite being for different purpose and density – previously and the metafiction being used in postmodern novels includes some impressions of these techniques. Orhan Pamuk who is known with his postmodern novels in modern Turkish literature, used many metafiction techniques in Beyaz Kale and the postermodern novels he wrote afterwards. In our writing we will identify a metafiction technique, which becomes like Orhan Pamuk`s sign, characters introduce themselves as the author of the novel in the novel that factual reader reads. This conspicuous paradox which Orhan Pamuk creates by confiding his authorship both becomes a fun for reader and himself and enable him to transpose his views about the novel to the readers pretending he hide himself. Keywords Orhan Pamuk, metafiction, Romanticism, Realism, Postmodern novel.

276-285

Authors: Muhittin ELİAÇIK

Among the works written in verse in the Ottoman Empire, there were also fatwas that is a legal issue and some of the Shaikh al-lslams or Muftis have given the same answers to some of the questions asked to them in verse. In certain time not that common, though limited to people and the environment, a tradition in the Ottoman Empire in this regard has been seen to occur. First examples of these fatwas seen in the second half of the 16th century, common to these fatwas were also found in the 17th - 18th century, whereas the samples are much reduced from the 19th century. The first examples of these fatwas can be said to have originated in the statutory period of 30 years and Selim II, who Shayikh al-lslam Ebussuud Lord. Fatwas in verse is an original type in the Classical Turkish Literature. The word fatwa derived from the root of the Arabic word “Fetai”, and told about shedding a light on a difficult matter to be solved and the word “ifta” tried to describe the dissolution of a matter to be illuminated by examining it. Fatwas in verse in the Ottoman Empire, each of which were penned by shayikh al-lslams or muftis who were Ottoman poets and one of the foremost of them has been the teacher of the two sultans and historian, professor and Shaikh al-lslam Hodja Sadeddin Effendi. This article introduces his detected fatwas in verse. Keywords Fatwa, verse fatwa, Shaykh al-Islam Hodja Sadeddin Effendi.

300-377

Authors: Sabri Tevfik HAMMAN

In the current study "Mani (Songs) of Ramadan", the type and content of care are discussed. Together with other types and forms (of songs) , especially Istanbul structural one, Ramadan songs are considerably examined. Folklore studies are carried out in a way to connect these songs with other types. In Turkey, Ramadan determines the impact of songs on the society. Therefore, Ramadan in Turkish culture and its relation with songs is carfeully examined. The current study consists of two parts in addition to an introduction. The first section discusses the meaning of the term "song" and its relation with other literary genres. It also sheds a considerable light on the previous studies and topics that dealt with the history of songs in Turkey and their relationship with Ramadan. The relationshp between literature and literary genres are also investigated in this chapter. In the second chapter, examples of Ramadan songs are examined discuseed and analyzed. The chapter compares between songs in Turkish ltearture and different Arabic literary genres. The study ends with results as well as a list of references. Keywords Types of Ramadan Mani , Figure and Turkish culture.

388-399

Authors: Bülent Arif GÜLEÇ - Nuray GÜLEÇ

The purpose of this study is to identify the disruptive student behaviours observed by teachers of English in university preparatory classrooms. The teachers’ perceptions on students’ behaviours described as “disruptive” and common disruptive student behaviours in the classrooms were investigated. This study seeks answers for the following questions: How do teachers of English in university preparatory classrooms perceive disruptive student behaviours? What types of disruptive student behaviour do the teachers of English encounter in their classrooms? What are common disruptive behaviours observed by teachers of English in university preparatory classrooms? Is there any significant relationship between the teachers’ gender, age, experience, the department they graduated from, the number of classes they teach and the number of students they have in their classrooms and their perceptions to disruptive student behaviour? This research was a descriptive study. 40 teachers of English in preparatory classes of Çukurova University School of Foreign Languages participated in this study. The data was collected through a questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. In the first part, there were questions about the participants’ gender, age, experience, the department they graduated from, the number of classes they teach and the number of students they have in their classrooms. In the second part, the perceptions of English language teachers in university preparatory classrooms of the disruptive student behaviours were investigated. The results indicated that “Using a mobile telephone during the lesson”, Arguing or disagreeing with the teacher or other pupils”, “Cheeky or rude remarks or replies to the teacher” “Cheating”, “Not studying regularly” were common disruptive student behaviours. Besides, “Goofing off” was the most commonly encountered misbehaviour type. Lastly, there was a significant relationship between the teachers’ gender, age, teaching experience, the number of classes they teach and the number of students they have in their classrooms and their perceptions of disruptive student behaviour. However, there was no significant relationship between the department the teachers graduated from and their perceptions of misbehaviour. Keywords Classroom Management, Disruptive Student Behaviour

416-418

Authors: Gürdal ÇETİNKAYA

Kitap Tanıtım ve Değerlendirme: ÜÇÜNCÜ KILIÇ İZMİR’İN KURTULUŞU VE YÜZBAŞI ŞERAFETTİN