Analysis Of Stories Of Sevim Ak In Terms Of Sensitivity Education

Children’s literature is a field which accompanies the individual in the journey of recognizing and interpreting life from childhood to adulthood. Its contribution to the child’s cognitive development, language development, social development, and understanding and interpreting life from artistic point of view is significantly great. However, the important thing is not the quantity of these contributions made by children’s literature but the quality of it. One of the distinctive aspects of quality children’s literature is that it makes contribution to the individual’s ability of showing sensitivity to life. Considered as the interest of the individual for situations which are out of his/ her own life and environment, sensitivity requires a process based on efforts which are essential and hard to develop. In order to increase effectiveness of the process, children should be introduced quality children’s books in their early ages. In this study, three different children’s books of Sevim Ak were analysed in terms of sensitivity education. Basic qualitative research design was used in the study, and the data was acquired through document analysis. In order to specify and classify the topics of sensitivity, content analysis was carried out by considering the coding carried out by Aslan (2016). Apart from one topic among the specified 29 topics, all topics were detected in stories at different rates. The most frequent topics are human, happiness of human, and sensitivity in terms of language. In addition to this, sensitivity to family members, love-compassion, animals, helping each other, nature, and being honest is frequently mentioned. From this point of view, it can be stated that stories of Ak can be effective in the individual’s acquisition of sensitivity to human and everything around him/her