Partial substitution in the hidden curriculum of children’s media: a comparative corpus analysis of religion-oriented and general-educational Turkish public broadcasting
Ramazan Şimşek · 2026
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Description
Ramazan Şimşek studies, in a solo 2026 paper, the hidden curriculum in Turkish children's television. Two public channels share one owner family and one age range but differ in orientation: one is general, the other religion-oriented. The question is how each words the social and emotional skills that children absorb from the shows.
The corpus holds over two hundred thousand words from 24 series and 284 episodes across both channels. Word analyses show the five core skills of the CASEL framework appear at similar rates in both. Value words split more: tradition and care mark the faith channel, while success marks the general one. The sharpest split sits in self-regulation. Faith-framed self-regulation floods the religion channel, while plain self-regulation words run near even. Şimşek calls the pattern partial substitution: the faith framing leads but does not crowd the plain framing out.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ramazan Şimşek |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |