Children's social rights in social studies textbooks in Turkish elementary education

The aim of this work is to present to what extent the social rights of the children are considered in the social studies textbooks of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades of elementary education in Turkey. All the units of the textbooks are examined with the content analysis method. In the research the analysis unit is determined as “Children's Social Rights”. This analysis unit is divided into three sub-categories as “Right to Health”, “Right to Social Security” and “Right to Education”. Frequency and percentage are used in data analysis.