Pre-service social studies and history teachers’ perceptions of history and their views on purpose of history teaching

The study aims to investigate the perceptions of pre-service teachers who will teach history courses and to learn their views about purposes of history teaching.This research study was conducted with 169 pre-service middle school social studies teachers and 39 pre-service secondary school history teachers. Qualitative research design was used in this study. The data of this study were collected by data collection form including two questions. The results of the study showed that the prospective teachers generally perceive the history as an objective science. It was observed that the students have nationalist-conservative perspective. Also, it was seen that preservice teachers generally emphasize the history as learning from the past and directing to the future in terms of the results regarding the views towards history teaching. Besides this, the pre-service teachers stated that the purpose of history teaching is improving national identity and consciousness. Contrary to this, the pre-service teachers did not mention some purposes of history teaching, such as raising effective citizens, developing democratic perspective, creative thinking, and historical thinking. © Kamla-Raj 2015

EXPRESSION OF OBESITY RELATED GENES AND LEPTIN SERUM LEVELS ARE DECREASED IN TURKISH SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS CASE-CONTROL STUDY

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ASSOCIATION STUDY OF THE DIO2 GENE AS A SUSCEPTIBILITY CANDIDATE FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA IN THE TURKISH POPULATION; A CASE-CONTROL STUDY

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Association study of the DIO2 gene as a susceptibility candidate for schizophrenia in the Turkish population; A case-control study

İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu.Introduction: Schizophrenia (SCH) is one of the major and potentially severe mental illness that is characterized by both genetic and clinical heterogeneity. Thyroid hormone plays an important role in the development of the brain and nervous system both in the basic process of neurogenesis and of terminal brain differentiation. Type II deiodinase (DIO2) enzyme which has a critical role on thyroid hormone metabolism to convert pro-hormone thyroxine (T4) to the active hormone triiodothyronine (T3). Recently, DIO2 gene variations have been identified in association with mental disorders

Treatment guidelines for bipolar disorders of Psychiatric Association of Turkey

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