Cite: Demirtaş, Ç. (2022). Teachers’ views on political subjects in the social studies curriculum. Pedagogical Perspective, 1(2), 115-128. DOI: 10.29329/pedper.2022.493.4 *Correspondency: cagridemirtass@gmail.com © 2022, Pedagogical Perspective Pedagogical Perspective, 2022, Vol 1, No 2, 114-128 ISSN: 2822-4841 Available online at http://www.pedagogicalperspective.com Teachers’ views on political subjects in the social studies curriculum 1 Çağrı DEMİRTAŞ 2* 2 Social Studies Education, Adıyaman University, Adıyaman, Türkiye. Article Info Abstract Keywords Politics Social Studies Citizenship Article History Received 11.10.2022 Received in revised form 05.11.2022 Accepted 06.11.2022 Article Type Research Article 10.29329/pedper.2022.493.4 The education system, which the ruling power uses to ensure that its ideology is adopted while creating the goals of the education system, is intertwined with politics due to its nature. In this respect, it is impossible to consider education separately from politics. Social studies education comes to the fore as the field where ideology is given to individuals intensively. Hence, it is important to examine the social studies Curriculum and reveal the current condition of the Curriculum for acquiring political skills. The opinions of teachers, who are the Curriculum’s implementers, about the Curricul um, its implementation, or the elimination of the Curriculum’s deficiencies, if any, and supporting the Curriculum with new ideas are important. The current study was regarded as important to determine the views of the Curriculum implementers concerning the current condition of the social studies Curriculum and its improvement if needed. The basic interpretative qualitative research approach was employed to determine the views of social studies teachers on political subjects in the social studies Curriculum. The study group of the present research consists of 20 social studies teachers working in public schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education in the central district of Adıyaman province. A standardized open-ended interview form was used to collect data from teachers in the study. The data acquired at the end of the data collection process were analyzed by adopting the inductive analysis approach. To this end, the data obtained were analyzed in accordance with the inductive analysis approach and concept coding method, categories were created, and themes were reached from the categories. According to the findings, the majority of the social studies teachers participating in the study stated that the subjects of political literacy were not suitable for the level of students. While justifying this, they indicated that politics was not suitable for the age level of students, society was not ready for this, or concepts in the politics-related Curriculum were abstract. It should be specified that teacher statements are actually the result of a social reflection. It can be said that the reason why politics is generally viewed negatively is the political-based events that took place in Turkey in the past. 1 Introduction In the broadest sense, politics is the activity that people carry out to make, protect, and change the general rules that govern their lives. Politics is connected in a complex way with the phenomena of conflict and cooperation. On the one hand, the presence of competing ideas, divergent desires, competing needs, and conflicting interests leads to the fact that people do not 1 This study was presented as a presentation of the 8 th International Symposium on Social Studies Education.