摘要：Textbooks constitute an important element in the development process of students because of their fundamental role in learning. Turkish textbooks play a major role in shaping the educational process as an agent that establishes such a functional environment. Elementary school students who are going through the process of growing up tend to identify themselves with the heroes in the stories in Turkish textbooks. Therefore, the character traits of people in the stories in Turkish textbooks are important. This study presents an analysis of the character traits of people in the stories in grades 1, 3, 5, 6, and 8 Turkish textbooks by the Ministry of Education, grade 2 textbook by Dikey Publishing, grade 4 textbook by Doku Publishing and grade 7 textbook by Ez-De Publishing, using the criteria set forth by Sever (2007). The research uses document analysis which is in the qualitative research tradition. Descriptive analysis approach was used to analyze the data. The analysis revealed that in the 52 stories in the above mentioned elementary and secondary school Turkish textbooks, 13,46% of the 260 characters that were analyzed were identified as open in terms of openness and closedness, 11,53% were dynamic in terms of dynamicality and stability. In the stories, open characters were not included in 24 stories anddynamic characters were not included in 28 stories. This may create negative consequences for children. A set of recommendations were given based on the results of the study.
其他摘要：Ders kitapları, öğrenme etkinliğindeki temel yapısıyla öğrencilerin gelişim sürecinde önemli bir değişkendir. Türkçe ders kitapları işlevsel bir ortam hazırlayıcı olarak eğitsel sürecin şekillenmesinde başat rol oynar. Gelişim çağında olan ilkokul ve orta
关键词：elementary school; secondary school; Turkish textbooks; story; character traits
其他关键词：ilkokul; ortaokul; Türkçe ders kitapları; öykü; karakter özellikleri
