An Evaluation of the International Children's Books about Turkey and Turks

İki bölümden oluşan bu çalışmada Türkiye ve Türkler hakkında bilgi içeren çocuk kitapları incelenmiştir. İlk bölümde erken yıllarda İngilizce yayımlanan çocuk kitaplarında batının Türk imajı üzerine odaklanılmıştır. İkinci bölümde, ilk bakışta Amerikan okul çocuklarına yabancı gelebilecek, Türkiye hakkında ve Türkiye'de geçen olayları konu edinen, yakın zamanda yayımlanmış ve halk kütüphanelerinde yer alan çocuk kitapları, çocuklara bir ülkenin kültürü ve genel özellikleri hakkında bilgi vermesi ve diğer insanlarla bağlantı kurmalarını sağlaması açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Bu kitaplar çocukların kültürel bilgi ağlarının genişlemesine ve kültürlerarası anlayış geliştirmelerine yardımcı olabilir. Bazen bir ülke hakkında okunan aydınlatıcı kitaplar insanların yaşamları hakkında derinlemesine bir görünüm sağlayabilir. Çalışmanın sonucunda, olumsuz, dini ve egzotik kavramları ilk incelenen kitaplarda ortak temalar olarak bulunmuştur. Günümüz kütüphanelerinde mevcut kitapların çoğunun uluslararası çocuk kitapları açısından sınırlı nitelikte olduğu görülmektedir.

Türkiye ve Türkler Hakkında Yayımlanan Yabancı Çocuk Kitapları Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

In this two-part study, children's books contain informationabout Turkey and Turks were examined. In the first part focusing on the early English children's books western images ofTurks were explored. In the second part, the books aboutTurkey and stories set in Turkey published recently and available in public libraries to show how wide reading of books onone country can teach children much information about thecultures an people of the country, and build connections topeople who might at first seem rather foreign to Americanschoolchildren were shared. These stories can be instrumentalin expanding children's cultural knowledge and helping develop intercultural understandings. Sometimes it can be enlightening to focus on reading books about just one countryto get an in-depth view of the stories and lives of the people.As a result of the study it can be concluded that negative, religious and exotic concepts were found as common themes inthe earlier books. Most of the books currently available in thelibraries have limited qualifications for the international children's books.

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