The Implementation of One of the History Education Decisions in the Second National Education Council in 1943: The Formation Story of a Histomap

Beginning of article

Abstract

This article discusses the meeting of the Second National Educational Council in 1943, the decisions made about teaching history and the preparation and implementation of histomaps, which was one of the decisions made about the teaching of history. For this purpose, document analyses are used and first hand and second hand resources were reviewed. The endeavor in this study is to show how one of the council decisions of the first years of the Republic is applied. Hasan Âli Yücel, the Minister of National Education assigned Hâmit Zübeyr Kosay for this histomap task. Benefiting from the study of John B. Sparks (1931) named "The Histomap: Four Thousand Years of World …