@article{2016,title={AN EVALUATION OF NEW TURKISH COURSE CURRICULUM},abstractNode={Curricula shaped by countries’ education policies are developed by taking many factors into consideration in the course of plan. Curriculum makes it possible to educate new generations who will maintain the future and continuity of a country. They have a great effect on not only transferring cultural values but also preserving universal values guaranteeing the future of a country. In Turkey, from the establishment of the Republic till today, curricula have been developed sometimes as a whole or sometimes with partial changes and used in educational environments. As a consequence of reconstruction of education faculties it is noticed that since 1997 curricula developed according to present conditions have been based on constructivist principles. Renewed Turkish Course Curriculum for grades 1-8 has been accepted by Board of Education and Discipline with its decision 71 dated 05/08/2015. Accordingly, it is decided that Primary Education Turkish Course Curriculum (for grades 1-8) will be implemented gradually starting with 1st and 5th grades from 2016-2017 academic year and on. In this context, the purpose of this study is to evaluate 2015 Turkish Course Curriculum (for grades 1-8). As one of the techniques in qualitative research tradition, document review was used in the study. Currently used Turkish Course Curriculum (for 1-5 grades), Turkish Course Curriculum (for 6-8 grades) and evaluate 2015 Turkish Course Curriculum (for grades 1-8) were used as document. When analyzing the data descriptive analysis technique was utilized. The result showed that new curriculum has a vague teaching philosophy and approach, there isn’t any significant difference in aims, number of learning domains and themes and their contents are changed, teaching-learning processes aren’t included and testing and evaluation isn’t changed at all. With regard to teaching of reading and writing changes have been made in phonetic groups and syllable, word, sentence and text construction processes.},author={Kamil İŞERİ-& Muhammet BAŞTUĞ},year={2016},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}