Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Cite as/ Atıf: Kara, S. (2020). Günümüz tarihî romanlarının eğitime bakan yönü üzerine. Turkish Studies - Language, 15(4), 1895-1905. https://dx.doi.org/10.47845/TurkishStudies.43873 Received/Geliş: 31 Mayıs/May 2020 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 20 December/Aralık 2020 Published/Yayın: 25 December/Aralık 2020 Copyright © INTAC LTD, Turkey CC BY-NC 4.0 Günümüz Tarihî Romanlarının Eğitime Bakan Yönü Üzerine On the Side of Today's Historical Novels to Education Samet Kara * Abstract: The historical novel, which we have seen from the first periods when the novel showed its existence in Turkish literature, historical, political, ideological etc. when the processes are taken into consideration and examined, it will be seen that it is one of the novel genres where the approach style to it varies most. As this approach styles changed, the areas to be used in the historical novel genre also gained diversity. Education is at the top of these fields. The fact that the novel genre of the topics discussed in history teaching was to be delivered to the students within the framework of being easy and highly readable, provided a new mission to the historical novel. However, in the debate whether the historical novel, which emerged in parallel with the changes in the world of literature, will be evaluated with the view of “real” or the view of “reality”, the fact that the “reality” view today prevails has revealed that the mission imposed on the historical novel in the field of education and training should be revised. The fact that distance education has become much more important than in the past has shown that whether historical novels can be used in these distance education activities can be considered as a part of these review activities. In this context, if historical novels can be used in history teaching, which of the novel examples that differ in the context of changing historical novel understandings should be preferred, and the questions of whether history teaching differs according to the role of the teacher in this “choice” process. The fact that today's historical novels put forward fiction more than ever before should not be ignored when looking for answers to these questions. Structured Abstract: The historical novel genre has matured with the methods, rules and traditions of the Romanticism movement that has influenced the whole of Europe since the second half of the 19th century and has become a popular type in Turkish literature towards the end of the same century. From these dates, we can say that the problems arising in this kind in world literature have become controversial in Turkish literature. The first of these problems is undoubtedly the debates arising from the distinction between "real" and "reality", and the source of the discussion is related to which aspect of the historical novel author preferred the type of historical novel. Because the historical novel is twofold. One aspect looks at history and the other looks at literature. The issue of the author's concern in which of these aspects means that she/he reveals her preference in the distinction between “real” and “reality”. The first historical novels in our literature were correct to be close to history, and even some authors wanted to show how faithful they were to the truth with the bibliography and footnotes they added to their * Dr. MEB Dr. Rapublic of Turkey, Ministry of National Education 0000-0002-1595-534X sametkara29@hotmail.com