Childhood in Turkey: Educational, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

1. The Rights of the Child in Turkey (Basak Basoglu  & Kadir Berk Kapanci).- 2. From Research to Policy Implementation: An Overview of Child Well-Being Studies in Turkey (Pinar Uyan-Semerci  & Emre Erdogan).- 3. Child Labor in Turkey: An Overview (Pinar Uyan Semerci  & Emre Erdogan).- 4. The Construction of Childhood as a Political and Educational Category in Modern Turkey (Mehmet Toran  & Ziya Toprak).- 5. Transformation of Childhood in the Education System (Mine Göl-Güven).- 6. Challenges of Syrian Refugee Children in the Turkish Education System: Pathways to Inclusive Education (Ulas Sunata  & Ayse Beyazova).- 7. A Social Justice-Oriented Analysis of Refugee Children's Educational Experiences in Turkey (Sultan Kilinc  & Elif Karsli-Calamak).- 8. Children and Politics in Turkey: Role-playing, Unchilding, Victimization (Nazan Maksudyan).- 9. Mechanisms Linking Prenatal Environment and Child Development: The case of BABIP birth cohort from Turkey (Elif Aysimi Duman).- 10. How Children in Turkey Use Digital Media: Factors Related to Children, Parents, and their Home Environment (Berna A. Uzundag , Cansu Oranç , Dilara Kessafoglu  & Merve Nur Altundal).- 11. Cultural Factors in the Development of Children's Socioemotional Competence (Ibrahim H. Acar  & Sevval Nur Yagli).- 12. Development of Social and Moral Judgments in the Turkish Context (Melike Acar).- 13. Mental State Understanding in Turkey: Findings on the Development of the Theory of Mind from a Turkish Context (Müge Ekerim-Akbulut).- 14. Children's Psychological Wellbeing under Armed Conflict: Findings from the East of Turkey (Buket Kara  & Bilge Selcuk).- 15. Experience of Early Childhood Care and Education in Turkey (A. Beyza Ates  & Hande Sodaci).- 16. Scientific Thinking in Young Children: Development, Culture, and Education (Özgün Köksal).- 17. Narrative Competence in relation to SES-second Language Interaction in

Hilal H. Sen received her Ph.D. degree in developmental psychology from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Hilal H. Sen is an assistant professor of psychology at MEF University in Istanbul. She is currently working at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. Her research focuses on moral development and active learning in childhood in peer-peer and parent-child interactions. 



Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012.  She is the editor of the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and eight books in Springer's Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, Happiness and Death.