Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Personal development includes the process of an individual’s creating solutions to daily problems person encounters, expressing person emotions complying with the social environment. During this process, literary works can be of great importance for children to develop, socialize and meet their other spiritual needs. In this respect, education of children through literary works should be attached importance. Books written for children present different life models with a perspective of an artist. This teaches children that different opinions, problem solving methods may be in different cultures. While selecting books for children, importance should be attached these books to include cultural richness, ethical values. Selected books should help children to develop their humanistic emotions and characteristics and messages given by such books should be in line with the behaviors and personal traits expected to be possessed by children. The work of Nâbî called Hayriyye which needs to be investigated in relation to its guidance to people explains the importance of having a good morality. In this work, Nâbî, through his own son, explains various life experiences and gives some advice to them. Nâbî affected many writers and poets coming after himself and his educational value should be investigated to provide guidance. For this purpose, it is concluded that the educational aspect of Nâbî's Hayriyye was strong and caused servants to the general aims of Turkish National Education.