IJOFE, 2018, 4 (2), 97-110 ISSN: 2149-3030 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FIELD EDUCATION ©2018 IJOFE. All Rights Reserved The Use of the Life Stories of Female Heroes to be Gained the Value of Patriotism in Social Studies Courses Nazike Karagözoğlu 1 Yozgat Bozok University, Education Faculty, Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7410-3286 ABSTRACT ARTICLE INFO Perpetuity of a nation can be associated with the degree of the value, devotion and sacrifice of the individuals to their countries who form the countries. As to be expressed with M.C Kuntay’s verse ‘’What makes the flag a real flag is the blood on it, if someone died for the country it is homeland.’’, the value of patriotism in the education program has a special importance to raise a generation who has conciousness to sacrifice itself for it’s country. The loyalty and the love of the Turkish people to their country are proved to World by many events, especially with Çanakkale and War of Independence. The stories of the female heroes must be used as teaching material in social studies education in order to be felt by children the effect of Turkish women’s soul of patriotism, solidarity and struggle to win the War of Independence in the front and back and also in order to improve the emotion of patriotism in self discovery via empathy. In this study, the aim is to identify the life stories of female heroes which can be used with the aim of bringing the value of ‘’patriotism’’ which is in the Social Studies Program. In this research, documents review was used which is a research method that includes finding the sources, reading, taking note and evoluation with a spesific target. In order to determine the life stories of female heroes, some sources like book, article etc which are related with this topic were surveyed and the life stories was presented in the way to use in courses. Received: 31.10.2018 Revision received: 26.11.2018 Accepted: 27.12.2018 Published online: 31.12.2018 Key Words: Social Studies, Patriotism, Female Heroes, Life Stories 1 Corresponding author: Dr. Nazike.karagozoglu@bozok.edu.tr 05437627313 * A part of this study was presented as an oral presentation at the International Learning, Teaching and Educational Research Congress held at the University of Amasya on 6-8 September 2018.