Yüksek Din Eğitimi Öğrencilerinin Demokratik Tutumları Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Abstract

Anahtar kelimeler: Demokratik tutum, din eğitimi, ilahiyat, İDKAB. An Investigation of the democratic attitudes of students in higher religious educationAbstract: The main aim of this research is to determine the levels of democratic attitude of students of Division of Theology and Division of Primary Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge teaching in Turkey and to investigate these levels of attitudes in terms of various variables. The research is a definitive investigation in the survey model. In this research, it was used "Democratic Attitude Scale" which was developed by "Published for the Attitude Research Laboratory" and adapted to Turkish by Gözütok. The population of the study is totally 365 students at the Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Education at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University. At the end of the study, it was found out that there was no significant difference between the students' democratic attitudes and their genders, classes, graduated secondary school types, location where they live, education level of father, occupation of parent, decision maker in the family and source of income. On the contrary it was found out that there was significant difference between the students' democratic attitudes and their departments, education level of mother, attitudes of family, the place of residence and media content which they interest.

Critical Thinking Attitude and Some Other Variables in Predicting Students’ Democratic Attitudes

“…Approximately half of the field studies conducted from primary school to university level found that girls/women have higher democratic attitudes (Sağlam, 2000;Bingöl, 2000;Saracaloğlu, 2001;Kaldırım, 2003;Saracaloğlu, Evin & Varol, 2004;Turan & Taşpınar, 2004;Gürbüz, 2006;Ulusoy, 2007;Genç & Kalafat, 2007;Akın & Özdemir, 2009;Aydemir & Aksoy, 2010;Ural & Sağlam, 2011;Şimşek, 2011;Merey, Kaymakcı & Kılıçoğlu, 2011;Diker, 2012;Yüksel, Bağcı & Vatansever, 2013;Ekici, 2014;Kuş & Çetin, 2014;Öztaşkın & İçen, 2015;Aslan, 2018;). However, other half of the studies found no significant difference by gender (Dilekmen, 2000;Kılıç, Erçoşkun, & Nalçacı, 2004;Ömerustaoğlu, 2004;Karahan, Sardoğan, Özkamalı, Dicle & Dicle, 2006;Bulut, 2006;Ercoşkun & Nalçacı, 2008;Ektem & Sünbül, 2011;Nazıroğlu & Çetin, 2014;Elkatmış & Toptaş, 2015;Akar, İnel & Yalçıntaş, 2017;Tiryaki, 2018;Çırak, 2018). Only one study (Çermik, 2013) found a significant different by gender in favor of men.…”

“…In addition, there are also other studies suggesting that father's education status affects democratic attitudes (Saracaloğlu, Evin & Varol, 2004;Güven, 2005;Bulut, 2006;Evcimik, 2009;Yazıcı, 2011;Kuş & Çetin, 2014). On the other hand, in many studies carried out in different settings ranging from primary school to university level, mother's education status seems to be more effective (Güven, 2005;Gömleksiz & Kan, 2008;Gömleksiz & Çetintaş, 2011;Ural & Sağlam, 2011;Kardaş, 2013;Nazıroğlu & Çetin, 2014;Aslan, 2018;Tiryaki, 2018). In this study, it was concluded that the democratic attitudes of the students in the sampling group are affected by the father's education status.…”

“…In contrast to these findings, some studies did not find any difference by gender. There was no difference in democratic attitudes by gender in the studies on the students in primary (Tiryaki, 2018) and secondary schools (Çırak, 2019), prospective teachers (Dilekmen, 2000;Ömerustaoğlu, 2004;Karahan, Sardoğan, Özkamalı, Dicle & Dicle, 2006;Ercoşkun & Nalçacı, 2008;Ektem & Sünbül, 2011;Nazıroğlu & Çetin, 2014;Elkatmış & Toptaş, 2015;Akar, İnel & Yalçıntaş, 2017) and teachers (Yalçın, 2007;Şahin, 2008;Yılmaz, 2011;Karatekin, Merey & Kuş, 2013;Kontaş, Selçuk & Polat, 2016). In another study conducted with the participation of prospective teachers, Çermik (2013), however, found that the difference favored the men.…”

“…Similar results were obtained in the studies conducted on prospective teachers studying in various departments. Nazıroğlu and Çetin (2014), Gömleksiz and Çetintaş (2011) and Evcimik (2009) concluded that the mother's education level affects the democratic attitudes of the students. In contrast to these findings, some studies reported that no significant difference was foundaccording to the mother's education level.…”