Abstract :
Parallel to the developments in the world, a number of developments are taking place in museum education in Turkey, as well. One of these developments is the in-service training program called “Museum Education Certificate Program” which has been implemented by the Ministry of National Education for teachers as of 2019. With this program, it is aimed for the teachers to use the historical, cultural places and museums in the provinces where they work effectively and to include them in the education. These trainings are currently available only to limited branch teachers. Considering that museums can be used within the scope of many courses, it is important to reveal the courses that can be used. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine the opinions of secondary school branch teachers about museum, historical place and museum education. In this context, the working group of the study consists of a total of 22 teachers, two each of whom are from all branches (physical education and sports, technology and design, information technologies and software, religious culture and moral knowledge, science, visual arts, mathematics, music, social studies, Turkish, foreign language,) at secondary school level. The date of basic qualitative research from qualitative research approaches were obtained from semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed with descriptive analysis which is one of the qualitative data analysis techniques. As a result of the research, the participants considered the museums as the place where the historical artifacts were exhibited and the historical place as the structures and artifacts of the past. While only 6 of the participants stated that they benefited from museums within the scope of the course, 17 of them thought that they could benefit from the museums within the scope of the courses. In addition, the participants' awareness of Kayseri's historical sites is limited and it is concluded that the main courses that can be used in museums are Social Studies, Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge and T.R. History of Turkish Revolution and Atatürkism.
Keyword :
Museum education, museum, historical place