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The primary purpose of this study was the determination of the ergonomic preferences of the primary education students during their writing process. The study was conducted with the survey method and participated by 352 students studying 1-4th years of primary school located in Ankara. The data collection process was carried out in two stages. In the first stage the photographs of the students were taken when they were writing a text dictated on them. These photographs were thoroughly analyzed by the researcher and put down in an observation monitoring log. During this process the researchers worked in pairs and the pencil grasp, sitting and paper positions of the students were decided on mutual agreement. The results were then statistically analyzed with the SPSS program. The observations showed that the majority of the students write with their right hands and most of them control the paper with their non-writing hand. Almost half of the students were sitting in correct position and similar number of students was observed to excessively bend towards the desk. %20 of the students had the correct pencil grasp and hold the pencil between their thumb and the pointing fingers. Many of the students were seen to grasp the pencil towards its tip and half of the students positioned the paper perpendicular to their bodies and half of them place the paper with a rightward slope. It was concluded that the necessary precautions should be taken in order to teach the students to write in ergonomic position.

The aim of this study is to investigate master’s and doctoral theses and the research papers conducted in Turkey between the years 2000 and 2016 on the prosocial behaviours in preschool period. The framework of this research includes the studies on prosocial behaviours of preschool children in Turkey, except for two studies. These two studies, although conducted in Melbourne district of Australia, were included in the study since their sample is consisted of Turkish children at preschool age. Within the scope of the present study, 7 master’s and 2 doctoral theses and 6 research papers were investigated. The theses and research papers were classified according to the year when the studies were conducted, research type, research design, data collection tools, methods and the cities where the data were collected. Theses were gathered from the thesis centre of Council of Higher Education while the research papers were obtained through the index scanning of Google Scholar, Ulakbim-Journal Park, Taylor&Francis Online, Science Direct, Web of Science, Academic Search Complete and ERIC. The data of the study was collected through epistemological document analysis method. Descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage were made use of for the distribution according to the year when master’s and doctoral theses and the research papers were conducted and the methods and techniques used. According to the results obtained in the study, it is observed that studies carried out on the prosocial behaviours in preschool period in our country haven’t reached a desired level yet. As a contribution to the field, it was suggested that the issue of prosocial behaviours should be included more in the master’s and doctoral theses and the research papers.

Throughout the literature of Islam Philosophy, the first examples of the tradition of story telling are that of Ibn Sina. However, translated from Greek by Huneyn b. Ishak, Salaman and Absal story and the story of Er, the son of Armeios, in the work of Platon: 'State' has inspired Ibn Sina and other Islam philosophers in terms of symbolic narration. The work of Ibn Sina Hayy b. Yakzan has paved the way for similar works such as Gurbatul Garbiyye written by Suhravardi, Hayy b. Yakzan by Ibn Tufeyl, Salaman and Absal by Molla Jami. For his paper on the symbolic work of Ibn Sina 'Hayy b. Yakzan', Ali Suavi choose the name of two characters Salaman and Absal. However 'Salaman and Absal' rather than being an independent work of Ibn Sina, is only a symbolic expression in the tenth chapter of his work al-Işarat va’t-Tanbihat. The aim of Ali Suavi is to compare the works not only Ibn Sina but also of other Islam philosophers who chose the same characters. About the sources of the story, unlike other views that have been put forward, Holy Scripture has been included in this analysis. Before that analysis, other claims were on the side that the sources are from Ancient Greek, Egypt and Arabic. Therefore, bringing a new perspective to the topic, Ali Suavi has paved the way for rediscussion of Salaman and Absal stories.