标题：Analysis of past events indicators and visual objects in the early childhood period story books Geçmiş zaman ifadelerinin ve görsel objelerin erken çocukluk dönemi hikâye kitaplarındaki durumunun incelenmesi
摘要：Children develop rapidly in various developmental areas during their pre-school period. Cognitive development, one of the developmental stages, is very important in the process of acquiring knowledge. Concept development is one of the areas that involves in cognitive development. Suitable to age and development level it begins few mounth after birth and continues lifelong. Concept of time is a sub section of concept development and is the foremost, difficult to acquire, concept. Because by its nature, it is an abstract concept. Perception of time in children is a very complex process and this process needs to be concretized and described according to the child’s developmental level for him/her to comprehend. Explanation of the Past Tense inside the story books that are prepared for this period are very important for describing the Past Tense, for children to develop the concept of time, and for the formation of early period understanding of history. In this research, visual objects and expressions from 178 story books that are used to explain past tense in preschool period are examined. The method of the research is determined to be document examination which is one of the qualitative research methods. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the research data. As a result of the research it was found that the expressions in the story books which are used to develop children’s perception of time were supportive to the schedule, published by Ministry of Education, of the concepts that should be taught to students by their teachers and the visual object were found inadequate.
