Pivoting on chaos and disorder, reflection on events steering the world of politics in social sciences course books (Turkey and USA example)

Abstract

Knowledge gets more competitive and expands this competition day by day in the current century. But there is nonesuch dynamic structure constantly in the constant change and development before. Paradigms are continuously effected by unpredictability, sustainability, change, uncertainty, chaos and confusion. The social, political, economic and cultural issues about chaos and confusion take part in the textbooks. This study examines the visual design and expression of the politically dominating events that occured in the past which took part in Turkish and American student textbooks. Qualitative research methods are used in order to define the situation. The case study methodology is used at the entire research. Documents are analyzed carefully and parameters are compared by their visual design and manner of telling. After achieving the results these parameters gone through interpretation process. Interpretations showed us that Turkish textbooks contains more visual materials than American one. However these visual materials turn out as limitation of the lecturing. It is found out that American textbooks have plainer way of teaching. These results show that Turkish textbooks should have homogenous subject structure. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.