Content analysis for articles published in the field of social studies education


Sökmen Y.

International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.1564-1582, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

The study aimed
to uncov
er the general trends of published researches
undertaken in
the field of S
ocial
Studies Education
. To
this end, SSCI, SCI
-
EXPANDED, A&
HCI, CPCI
-
S, CPCI
-
SSH, and ESCI indexed
journals
were
scanned through
the Web of Science database. In the study, 55 articles which wer
e s
uitable for
scope of the research, and published between th
e years of
2016 to 2019 with an address in Turkey
were
accessed, classified, and included in the stu
dy. In the analysis of the data,
content analysis method
and
descriptive statistics such as percentage and frequency waere
utilized
.
In the c
ontent analysis
various
variables
were considered,
such as author(s), year
of the research
, purpose
of the study
, r
esult
s
, r
esearch
methods, sampling methods
, and data collection tools. The resu
lts revealed
that the majority of research
es
used the qualitative research me
thod, the number of articles published was the highest in 2019, the most
commonly used data collecti
on tool was the interview, the samples included secondary school students at
most, and the studies were clustered in a sam
ple range of 31
-
100 participants