Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
1st International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All, Olomouc, Çek Cumhuriyeti, 29 - 31 Ekim 2015, ss.318-331
History science is one of the most important means of culture transfer and inculcating a national identity. It is a known fact that each nation legitimates and sustains its presence through legends, saga or books and documents. At this point what we call as national history, history of science, becomes one of the means of imparting national identity. In this study it is aimed to compare the ideological foundations of history curriculum of Turkish Republic and Kazakhstan Republic in the process of constituting a new nation after the independence with the new ideologies they have adopted. The research is a qualitative one in which historical method is used. The data has been obtained via document analysis through the history curriculum of Turkish and Kazakhstan primary and secondary education institutions, regulations on the subject and books and articles. According to the data obtained in the study tables have been formed and the similar and different aspects of the two countries have been presented by making the comparison of the two countries' ideologies and curriculums. According to the findings of the study; it has been seen that both countries have been in the process of becoming a nation state in the first twenty years of their independence and both have made arrangements by releasing a series of regulations and laws. In both Turkey and Kazakhstan a process of national history writing has been started and in line with the collected data, history education curriculum has been developed and the books have been rewritten. Moreover it has been seen that history course is one of the most important means of constituting a national identity in both of the countries