Dilek, DursunYapıcı, Gülçin2015-02-242015-02-242009Dilek, D.; Yapıcı, G. "Trainee History Teachers’ Misinterpretations of Sources and a Romantic Way Of Historical Understanding: An Analysis Of Examination Papers" International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research, Volume 8, Number 1, p.96-108. 2009.http://www.history.org.uk/library/0903/0000/0144/International_Journal_of_History____Vol_8_1.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/750This study aims to identify the difficulties that trainee history teachers experience when they study women in history using historical sources. For this purpose exam papers based on interpreting sources over three years were studied by researchers. Seventy five of 250 exam papers, which had similar misinterpretations and anachronistic inferences, were selected as the sample of this study. They were examined by using content analysis, a qualitative research technique. It was concluded that trainee history teachers had difficulties with identification, corroboration, analysis and contextualization of sources. In addition,they had difficulties in understanding the content of some sources because of inadequate language skills. Sometimes their tendency to question the official history discourse leads them to anachronistic and misinterpreted inferences. Trainee teachers also tend to interpret some historical facts in a romantic way. This study shows that trainee teachers should be taught how to work with sources. Philosophy of history and historical methodology courses should be reorganized and in addition new courses, such as the history of ordinary people and women’s history should be included in history teacher training programs.enWomen’s historySource-based learningTrainee history teachersArticle