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The paper focuses on the socio-psychological dimensions of social change in a Turkish village, Sakarya which is situated 90 km south west of Ankara and administratively attached to Polath. It is possible to conclude that there have been different types of modernizing or change-inducing influences in Sakarya which have produced distinct and only partially interconnected results. On the one hand, it has those influences which have their source in increased mobility and urban exposure, like education and mass media exposure and which have been more available to the younger and wealthier sections of the community. On the other hand, there are influences stemming more directly from structural changes in the village. These are among others, new sources of livelihood, changes in household structure and the foundation of the co-operative. These influences are neither separate nor mutually exclusive. Modernity at a social-psychological level emerged from the study as having highly complex relationships with the structural level in a manner which almost militates against postulating such a syndrome if it is to be abstracted from the concrete historical circumstances which lend it meaning and unity.

Focuses on books related to the foundations of education in Turkey. 'The Power of Darkness: Memoirs of the Village Institute Years,' a memoir of educator and novelist Talip Apaydin; Kemal Tahir's novel 'The Seed on the Steppe,' which tells of the struggle between government officials who were always oriented toward political strategy and the activist rural educators.

The article evaluates the adapted Harvey White Physics Films that addresses the problems of physics teaching in Turkey. The problem of physics teaching roots from the lack of physics teachers and the increasing number of students. The most promising approach to the problem is through the in-service education of teachers in practice. The Harvey White Physics Film series offer an approach to in-service training and to up-dating the physics course of study at the same time. The Film series made a greatest contribution as an aid to in-service teaching training and in schools where no physics teacher is available as an aid in the Correspondence Course.