"To Be A Citizen..." Teachers Hand Manuel

Prof.Dr.Ipek Gürkaynak
Doç.Dr. F.Dilek Gözütok
Dr.Sebnem Akipek
Ar.Gör. Melike Türkan Bagli
Ar. Gör.Tufan Erhürman
Ar. Gör.Fatma Özdemir Uluç

Ankara/Umut Vakfı Publications 
1. Edition June 1998
2. Edition September 2000
3. Edition April 2005

1998/162 pages

 

The books have been written by a team comprised of experts in different disciplines; they include necessary methods for education based on questioning, visual elements making the subject more attractive and contemporary issues. The books have been suggested to 7th and 8th grade students upon the 04.08.1998 date and 008378 numbered decision of Ministry of Education, Education and Training Council.

The books which were written by 6 academics from the University of Ankara Faculty of Law And Education Sciences are primarily written for students of secondary schools and teachers of Citizenship Information and Human Rights Education. But, the reader group of these books are not limited to these individuals. All the students and teachers wishing to read and cause other read a different and a contemporary book and teachers who wish to teach their students to think and produce ideas will like these books.

The student book has been written in order to make students think, develop their opinions and encourage students in human rights and basic rights and freedoms, concepts lying in the root of them, and in general about the responsibilities of being a citizen. The book aims to contribute students in a non-restrictive, guiding method in directing them to become inquisitive, questioning, criticizing and freely thinking, discussing, able to structure knowledge and solve problems.

It has been defended that citizenship is not restricted to activities and responsibilities like voting, paying taxes, serving one’s military service and a civil, democrat and participating citizen is aimed. Moreover, being a human requires one to give importance for the rights of other people in other nations, being against discrimination of all types, war, and torture. For this reason, in the student’s book, some sensitive issues like the death penalty has been addressed as well.

Teacher’s Hand book includes tips and suggestions for the teacher to enrich the lessons by giving examples, develop different approaches and try new techniques. When the teacher is reading and studying this book, it will be helpful and more productive if he/she also looks at the students’ book en order to make some determinations.

Naturally, the Students’ Book and The Teachers’ Hand Book comprises of the same subjects in the same order. There are 20 lessons in the books. The books start with a lesson with the topic of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and conclude with lessons with the topic Rights of Children. The first 8 lessons are about basic concepts like justice, responsibility, reconciliation etc. These lessons are studied since it is thought that they will prepare students for the upcoming lessons about rights and freedoms.

The 4 next lessons study the relations between the family and the child from different perspectives. After the lesson having the topic ‘The Constitution’, the last 7 lessons have been allocated to basic right and freedoms like the Freedom of Speech(Opinions), Freedom of Religion and Conscience, Right of Education, Right To Work etc.

books has been published in the first edition, but upon the interest shown on the book, 25.000 books have been published in the second edition.

 WITH THIS BOOK ON CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH HAS BEEN PREPARED WITH A NEW APPROACH, A DEMOCRAT AND PARTICIPATING FUTURE WAITS OUR YOUTHS.

Preamble

Nazire Dedeman
Founder Chief of Umut Honorable Chiefs Foundation

Education is expected to have a significant role in youths’ being effective and participatory citizens. Citizens who have imbibed the values that should be in a democratic society, who are conscious of their rights and responsibilities, who own the values and the rules that lies under the concepts such as human rights, superiority of law, state of law can be brought up by creating education opportunities which consist of knowledge and skills necessary for these.

While youths are learning the concepts such as law, justice, responsibility, guilt and punishment, human rights, democratic values, main democratic institutions, borders of rights and freedoms, being in conscious of their rights, the ways to protect them they should also learn the ways to be such people who knows their responsibilities as more efficient citizens, who show respect to the superiority of law but who can cooperate with each other in order to improve the system of justice.

Umut Honorable Chiefs Foundation is conscious of its responsibility regarding the issue as a non-governmental organization that is aiming to bring up youths in accordance with the values mentioned above. Therefore, it was a normal development that a book that is seriously composed of human rights and fundamental freedoms and respect to these issues and the activity of writing the manuel of a teacher in accordance with this book for secondary school students joined in various skill bringing activities which are led by Umut Foundation with the aim of binging up youths as people who imbibed the superiority of law, who are in favor of peace not violence (for ex: group works about solving conflicts, consensus, mediation)
 
How beautiful it is to create the necessity and conscience of being a citizen in youths and to have a contribution to their acquisition of the skill of being an efficient citizen.

I would like to thank to Assistant Prof. Dilek Gözütok, Dr. Şebnem Akipek; Research Assistants Tufan Erhürman, Fatma Özdemir Uluç and Melike Türkan Bağlı who are esteemed writers and who are in effort of writing the book called “To Be a Citizen” for more than two years and to Prof. Dr. İpek Gürkaynak who initiated this project, who contributed her considerable efforts to the writing of this book throughout and who did not withhold her fastidiousness from every illustrations in the publication stage of this book to the organization of the pages and who is the chief of the group of writers endeavored to create a good-humored book with considerable efforts and who is the administrator of this project. 

I would like to thank to Tayfa that made the activities of agency, to Sevil Emili İlemre who prepared the book to publication, to illustrators Behiç Ak, Uğurcan Ataoğlu, Şenol Bezci, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu, Ceren lncesu, Halil lncesu, Mesut Kayalar, Osman Kehri, Huban Korman, Tan Oral, Nilgün Öneş, Emre Senan, Cem Şehirli, Haluk Tuncay, Mehmet Ulusel, Murat Yılmaz and also to everyone who contributed to this book.

To successful future filled with hopes…


Contents
  • OPERATING MANUAL OF BOOKS
    PROF. DR. iPEK GÜRKAYNAK (ADMINISTRATOR OF THE PROJECT)
  • UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  • RULES OF LAW
  • JUSTICE
  • RESPONSIBILITY
  • COOPERATION-DIVISION OF LABOR
  • PARTICIPATION
  • CONFLICT-CONSENSUS
  • PEACE
  • THE CONCEPT OF A FAMILY
  • DEMOCRACY WITHIN A FAMILY
  • PROTECTION OF A CHILD WITHIN A FAMILY
  • PROTECTION OF A CHILD AGAINST ABUSE AND NEGLIGENCE
  • CONSTITUTION 
  • RIGHT TO LIFE, FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND CONSCIENCE, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT 
  • RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND LABOR
  • RIGHT TO ELECT AND TO BE ELECTED
  • FREEDOM OF MASS MEDIA AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE PRIVATE LIFE
  • RIGHT TO ENVIRONMENT 
  • RIGHTS OF CONSUMERS
  • RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
  • AMENDMENT 1- UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (Simplified and abbreviated)
  • AMENDMENT 2- TREATY ABOUT RIGHTS OF CHILDREN(Simplified and abbreviated)
  • AMENDMENT 3A- METHOD OF DISCUSSION 
  • AMENDMENT 3B- BRAINSTORM
  • AMENDMENT 3C- CONSTITUTION OF SMALL GROUPS
  • AMENDMENT 3D- METHOD OF THOUGHT WITH SIX HATS
  • AMENDMENT 3E- THE METHOD THAT WOULD BE FOLLOWED WHILE TEACHING CONTENTIOUS SUBJECTS
  • AMENDMENT 3F- BENEFITING FROM PEOPLE THAT ACT AS SOURCES
  • AMENDMENT 4- EVALUATION CRITERION OF THE BOOK CALLED “TO BE A CITIZEN…” AND THE HANDBOOK OF THE TEACHER WITH THE SAME TITLE
  • EPILOGUE
  • PROF. DR. İPEK GÜRKAYNAK (ADMINISTRATOR OF THE PROJECT)