@article{2016,title={EVALUATION OF RELIGIOUS – MYSTICAL TURKISH LITERATURE IN TERMS OF TEACHER AND TEXTBOOK},abstractNode={In this research, teaching of Religious – Mystical Turkish Literature has been evaluated in terms of views of Turkish language and literature teachers and textbook.This study is a qualitative research including interview and document analysis. Working group of the research comprises of 10 Turkish language and literature teachers working in different types of high schools in Kırşehir in 2008-2009 education and teaching year and determined by intentional sampling method. Besides,Religious- Mystical Turkish Literature subjects were examined in the 10th grade Turkish literature textbooks. According to results we obtained in the research; most of the Turkish language and literature teachers said that they didn’t get any inservice training seminars about instructional programmes, vocabulary of students to understand Religious- Mystical Turkish Literature was insufficient and they had difficulty in explaining mystical concepts to students.Teachers pointed out that they usually used written exams to measure their students’ achievements but they prefered multiple choice exams in all of the common exams. Besides, most of the teachers stated that they used the term ‘’ mystical literature’’ instead of ‘’ Religious-Mystical Turkish literature’’. In the textbook, it has been included genres of Religious – Mystical Turkish literature such as hymn, nefes, allocution (nutuk), and praise. Pir Sultan Abdal, Niyazi Mısri, Hacı Bayram Veli and Mevlana haven’t been included in the Religious –Mystical Turkish literature section. Questions under the texts in Religious – Mystical Turkish literature section are sufficient in terms of qualification and quantification.},author={Zafer GÜRLER},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}