Teachers’ Challenge with Social Studies Curriculum: A Meta-synthesis Study

Abstract

With adopting constructivist approach in educational policies, all the curriculums have been rewritten and in such a short time, they have been released for the use of teachers. Since then, many studies have been conducted on application of social studies curriculum in different regions. In this study, the purpose is to provide a holistic view of the problems arising from teachers' implementation of the social studies curriculum by using meta-synthesis method that is one of the qualitative methods. In accordance with the criteria set by the researchers, 24 qualitative studies were included in the research. As a result of this study, fundamental changes in the philosophy of education in a very short period of time in the program have been resulted major problems in the pilot implementation and presentation of the curriculum, in-service seminars of teachers, implementation of the curriculum, infrastructure of the schools and adaptation of the students to the curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]