Öğretim Teknolojisi ve Hayat Boyu Öğrenme Dergisi (ITALL), cilt.4, sa.1, ss.61-80, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The ethics of
understanding is a set of values based on the individual's natural curiosity to
seek and find the meanings that make life and human beings valuable, to take
the ethical responsibility required by the answers they find, and not to seek
any interest in these stages. Supporting this set of values starting from early
childhood makes significant contributions to the child's affective, social and
moral development. In particular, it is clear that quality texts that comply
with the basic principles that children's literature should bear will
positively affect the development of the ethics of understanding in children.
The aim of this study is to explain the relationship between children's
literature and the ethics of understanding and to explain the qualities that
children's books should have in terms of the ethics of understanding in line
with the views of the literature. This study was conducted with a qualitative
research method. The data source of the study is five children's books for
preschool children. The data were collected by document analysis method and
analyzed by descriptive analysis method. At the end of the study, it was seen
that qualified children's books have the potential to support the ethics of
understanding. The characteristics that books that support the ethics of
understanding should have were determined and suggestions were presented to the
authors of children's literature.