Siirt Hagiography in Terms of Values Education / Değerler Eğitimi Bağlamında Siirt Menkıbeleri

Abstract

In the social and cultural process, the Turks put positive meanings on some behavioral patterns and they give importance to the construction and preservation of these behavioral patterns. The behaviors that have become repetitive as they are endorsed by the society have become values in the last centuries by gaining abstract meaning. Therefore, these values have become inevitable in literary products which are a reflection of social and cultural life. Hagiographies as an anonymous folk literature genre the message that is required to be given to the reader is not only a prosaic message, but also values that are processed into the cultural codes of the people. Societies need to convey these values to future generations in order to be able to create their future in a healthy way. In this study, Siirt hagiographies were discussed in terms of value education. In the hagiographies collected in Siirt province, it was tried to determine how and how often the values were processed. In the study, the values in the Siirt hagiographies were determined by using the textual analysis method of qualitative research methods. The data collection source of the study is the total ninety hagiographies in the book “Siirt Hagiographies and Tomb Rituals”. A descriptive analysis approach was used in the analysis of the data. The study was conducted within the framework of Rokeach’s value classification and the results achieved were interpreted in terms of value education. As a result, it has been seen that the instrumental and terminal values such as self-control, benevolence, broad-mindedness, and wisdom can be transmitted to future generations through hagiographies.

Keywords

• Siirt
• hagiography
• education
• value education
• Turkish culture
• folklore