Examination of Social Science Teachers' Opinions on the Education of Students with Special Learning Deficiency

Considering the desire and effort of human beings, who are social beings, to live together, each individual forming the society needs a particular importance. It is also necessary to support the desire of harmonious and healthy individuals to live together in a society consisting of different people in terms of quantity and quality, with different instruments. Apart from the communication, economics, law, theology, psychology, politics, demography, etc. fields, education and training activities come to the fore when the necessity of systematic learning and assimilation of different variables by individuals within a multi-disciplinary understanding. When the subject is considered from the point of view of individuals with specific learning difficulties, systematic studies are carried out through public or private institutions for their education in Turkey. Inclusive education is one of the practices that schools do in this context. The teachers of the social studies course, being one of the useful courses for the students to adapt and socialize with the society they live in, have important duties in terms of adapting the students with special learning difficulties to the society. It is thought to be necessary to determine the status, scope and purpose of educational activities for them and the suggestions presented in this framework. In this context, this research, which was conducted to determine the views of social studies teachers on inclusive education practices, was shaped in a case study pattern and suggestions were presented in accordance with the results obtained.