Atlas Journal

The Role of Political Economy of Communication in the Formation of Global Strategies

Sedat Cereci — 2024-08-25

In this study, attempts and techniques to manipulate societies and dominate people through high communication technologies are discussed. While Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Propaganda Model and Edward L. Bernays' Consent Engineering theories found their living applications in the period when communication technology was at its highest; It has also been the main means of application for those who want to have power in the world and control people. According to Foucault, while power emerges as an absolute influence on the actions of the subjects rather than over the subjects as an other, in the hypermodern age where technology has reached its highest dimensions, there are high technologies that control and regulate the actions of people. In this context, public relations and propaganda activities carried out through mass media in order to manipulate the masses in order to form and shape public opinion. While more than half of the total population in the world uses the internet and social media, they do not realize how they are managed, controlled and manipulated. The powers that dominate people with high communication technologies decide and direct people in everything from how people will live to what they will do. Evolving with high communication technologies, people and the world are also witnessing the change of economic and political strategies and take their place in the game as the passive leading actor of this change.

Examination of the Questions Related to Exponential Expressions In 8th Grade Secondary School Mathematics Textbook and High School Transition Exam (Lgs) According to The Revised Bloom Taxonomy

Dicle Kadırhan — 2024-08-25

Although high school transition systems vary from country to country, in many countries, high school entrance exams are used for students to transition to high school. These exams are important as they have a major impact on students' education and play a key role in determining their future career and academic goals. In Turkey, there are central exams such as Transition System from Basic Education to Secondary Education (TEOG), Secondary Education Institutions Examination (OKS) and finally Transition to High Schools Examination (LGS). In the High School Entrance Exams applied in our country since 2018, it is noteworthy that the average of Mathematics course has the lowest value among all courses. This situation makes it important to examine the mathematics questions that students encounter in the LGS exam and the questions in the textbooks they study.

The aim of this study is to examine the knowledge and cognitive process dimensions of the Exponential Expressions study questions in the 8th grade mathematics textbook and the Exponential Expressions questions in LGS according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). Thus, it is aimed to question the adequacy of textbooks in terms of preparing students for exams and achieving the objectives of the course. In line with this purpose, this study was designed as a document analysis research based on qualitative research method. Within the scope of the study, the 8th grade mathematics textbook prepared by the Ministry of National Education Board of Education (MEBTTK) for the 2023-2024 academic year and the LGS mathematics questions applied between 2017 and 2023 were analysed. An evaluation was made on 33 questions in the textbook and 14 questions in the LGS. According to the findings obtained from the study, it was concluded that the questions in the textbook were mostly in the conceptual knowledge dimension and at the comprehension stage, whereas the questions published in the LGS were mostly in the metacognitive knowledge dimension and at the evaluation and analysis stage.

A Study on Prospective Teachers' Perceptions of Teaching Quality Competence

FARUK Kardaş — 2024-08-25

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of having or not having a teacher in the family and believing whether the teaching profession is innate or acquired on the perceptions of teaching quality competence. There are 346 pre-service teachers in the research group. This group consisted of final year pre-service teachers from the faculty of education and pedagogical formation programme. In the study, 22-item ‘Teaching Quality Efficacy Perception’ scale developed by Atar and Taşçı was used as a data collection tool. SPSS programme was used to analyse the data. Independent t-test was used to analyse the data. In the light of the data obtained, it was determined that the pre-service teachers' belief that the teaching profession is acquired innately created a significant difference on their perceptions of teaching quality efficacy. It was determined that the status of being a teacher in the family did not create a significant difference on the perceptions of teaching quality efficacy of pre-service teachers.

A Research on Privatization of Military Logistics Services and Outsourcing in Nato's Logistics Activities

Erdal Kılıç — 2024-08-25

With the end of the Cold War, the United States and other Western armies undertook substantial reforms. Armies, which had previously performed various tasks with their own organs and were capable of fulfilling them everywhere due to their organic structure, have now sought ways to reduce and exploit external resources to partially fulfill their tasks. The reorganization of NATO member countries' military logistics systems included strengthening and modernizing efforts against new threats emerging after the Cold War. While many NATO members, primarily the Turkish Armed Forces, continue to cooperate with the private sector to strengthen the country's defence industry, the idea of purchasing services from outside sources has gained importance due to changes in public procurement legislation in recent years. Our study aims to investigate the potential benefits of outsourcing logistical functions to external sources and their influence on the trend of using external resources.The study aims to scrutinize the political, legal, economic, and ethical aspects of private military companies, and pinpoint potential areas of collaboration with the Turkish Armed Forces. In this context, the primary focus of the study is to determine the areas where the Turkish Armed Forces should utilize external resources, and to explore how private military organizations can effectively fulfill NATO's military logistical service requirements. In addition to previous studies, this research has the potential to raise global awareness about the importance of private military companies.

Analysis of Mathematics Curriculum Evaluation Studies Conducted in Turkey Between 2005-2023: A Systematic Review

Huriye Yavuzkan — 2024-08-25

Curriculum evaluation studies are of great importance in thedevelopment of curricula and improvement of existing curricula. The aim of this study is to analyse the Mathematics Curriculum Evaluation studies conducted in Turkey between 2005 and 2023 in terms of methods, sample groups, data collection tools and techniques, findings and results, curriculum evaluation model used, and to give direction to future research and studies by gathering the studie sunder a single roof. For this purpose, the systematic review method was chosen because it will provide the opportunity to examine and evaluate the literature in a holisticway."Google Scholar" and "YÖK Thesis" databases were searched and the studies conducted in Turkey between the years 2005-2023 using thekey words "mathematicscurriculum" and "curriculumevaluation" were included in the study. The systematic review study was carried out on 19 studies, including 1 doctoral thesis, 4 master's theses and 14 articles, which were determined with in the scope of the inclusion and exclusion criteria determined by the researchers. The data were analysed using the content analysis technique and the data summarisation form prepared by the researchers. In the study, the findings related to the research questions were discussed under five headings; scientific research method sused in curriculum evaluation studies, stakeholders as datasources, data collection techniquesused, results obtained from curriculum evaluation studies and curriculum evaluation models used. While the survey method was mostly used in the studies, it was found that interview forms, questionnaires and scales were frequently used as data collection tools and descriptive statistics were mostly used in data analysis. In addition, it is seen that teacher opinions are frequently used in mathematics curriculum evaluation studies. In most of the programmes evaluated in the studies, there were positive opinions about the programme in general and it was stated that some difficulties were encountered in practice. Considering all these, it can be said that in order for curriculum evaluation studies to achieve their goals, qualitative and quantitative research methods should be used together as much as possible to support each other, the process should be carried out in a multidimensional way by involving more than one stake holder in the studies, more than one data collection tool and technique should be used to describe and interpret the process, curriculum evaluation models that will provide a systematic frame work for evaluation studies should be used, and the curriculum should be reviewed according to the evaluation results and the faulty aspects should be arranged.

Preventing Fraud in Accounting and Methods Used: Forensic Case Examples and Analysis in Osmaniye Province

Servet Önal — 2024-09-11

This study contains information about the prevention of fraud in accounting and the methods used. Businesses are vulnerable to cheating due to their organizational structure and activities. For this reason, it is necessary to reveal accounting frauds and to reveal what the measures can be taken, and to distinguish whether the mistakes made in the accounting system are mistakes or frauds. Considering the increasing number and amount of transactions in our world where technology is rapidly developing in parallel with these developments, explanations about which methods can be used in order to prevent accounting fraud were analyzed, and results and recommendations were made by analyzing the judicial cases related to fraud in the province of Osmaniye.

A Review of Postgraduate Theses on "Teaching History"

Tuba Şengül Bircan — 2024-08-25

The study aims to reveal the status of recent studies by examining the title and abstract sections of postgraduate theses prepared on history teaching. The sample of the study consists of postgraduate theses prepared in Turkey between 2020-2024 and accessible by scanning the "National Thesis Center" database. The keywords "history teaching" and "history education" were used during the scanning. 28 postgraduate theses that met these criteria were scanned. In the study, which was conducted with the systematic scanning design of the qualitative research method, the "Thesis Scanning Form" developed by the researcher was used as a data collection tool. Descriptive analysis was applied in the analysis of the study data. As a result of the research, deficiencies in thesis abstract writing were identified, and postgraduate theses prepared on history teaching were classified into 11 categories. It was observed that the theses concentrated on the categories of history teaching in innovative environments, views on history teaching practices, and literature review.