A sociological analysis of de pendency of high School students perception of nationalism and Heroism on gender and school type

History lessons and textbooks are the fastest and most efficient tools thatshape and transmit social values. Nationalism is one of the major notionsthat state includes in the official history . Schools are the maininstruments of the cultivation of nationalism through the use of heroism.This study is aimed to examine the differences among high schoolstudents perception of nationalism and heroism, focusing on thedifferences that have a meaningful correlation with gender and schooltype. For this purpose a test was executed to 628 students from differenthigh schools in Turkey. Data were collected by a test which was createdafter researching on the issue. Acc ording to the results of the research, itis found that male students and state school students have morenationalist values than female students and private school students.