
Sometimes a word is not just a word. It is a mirror of an era. Recently, while chatting with my grandmother, I used an expression we use frequently in daily life. She looked at me, smiled, and asked, âWhat does that mean?â At that moment I realized that even though we speak the same language, we are not living by the same words. In the past, our elders taught us words we did not know. Now the roles seem to have reversed. They are trying to learn the meanings of new words from us. âStory,â âcring
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Nida ĂstĂŒn

Emerging adulthood is defined as a distinct life stage in human development that occurs between adolescence and young adulthood, generally encompassing the ages of 18 to 25. This concept, introduced into the literature by developmental psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, may extend in contemporary societies up to the ages of 29 or 30 due to factors such as socioeconomic conditions and participation in higher education. Although individuals in this stage have completed their physical development
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Nida ĂstĂŒn

Cultural imperialism may sound at first like a grandiose political concept, but when we look at how it manifests in everyday life, it often plays out like a tragicomic scene: we sing along to English songs whose meanings we donât understand, we yearn to live amid the sets of Netflix series filmed in cities weâve never visited, and so on... So yes, cultural imperialism is a huge absurdity. But precisely because of this absurdity, it works so effectively: it shapes our minds, our desires, our tast
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AyĆe Aslıhan Yoran

When the Russians first appeared on the historical stage, they generally faced the dominance of Turkic peoples in Europe in both geographical and military terms. This social structure, which was minimally developed in early periods, has even been described in some sources as culturally quite primitive. Indeed, it is well known that the earliest Russian communities significantly benefited from and were influenced by the culture and civilization of the Turkic peoples in the region. Struggling to s
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Mustafa Cem İnci

The concept of âlearning commons,â conceptually supported and contributed to by Patrick Blessinger, emphasizes that learning does not occur solely within the walls of schools and classrooms but takes place in every aspect of life.ă1ăAccording to him, genuine learning gains meaning when it becomes embedded in everyday lifeâfor instance, when citizens contribute to citizen science by deploying sensors in a park to measure air quality, when a library transforms into an ecosystem not just of bookshe
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EyĂŒp Uygun