CHILDREN’S LITERATURE BOOKS AND EMPATHIC TENDENCY

This study, which generates in an experimental attribution on the purpose of setting children with children’s literature books and their influence of the empathic tendency. Working group of this research constitutes total 48 primary school students (4th grade) who go to “Kurtuluş Primary School” in Çankaya, Ankara in the first semester of 2013-2014 education year. In this research handled with two groups called test (n=24) and control group (n=24), “KASİ Empathic Tendency Scale” as preliminary test and post test were applied to participants. In this research statistics such as “Multiple Analysis of Variance” (MANOVA) for testing meaningfulness of the difference between intergroup empathic tendency points, and “Paired Sample T-Test” for testing meaningfulness of the difference between intra-group empathic tendency points were utilized. The test process consists of total 6 weeks being about 2 course hours a week. Courses in both groups were taught with “Integrated Learning Approach” in the test period. While courses in the control group were taught with texts in Turkish course book, courses in test group were taught with 6 short stories selected from 3 literary story books. When “KASİ Empathic Tendency Scale” preliminary test points were compared, it was understood that there was no meaningful difference with regards to points between test group and control group. In the last phase of this test process, points of test group differed from the ones of control group. In the conclusion of this research it was adjudged that Turkish courses taught with children’s literature books could contribute to children’s empathic tendency.