TEACHER OPINIONS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF VALUES EDUCATION IN TEACHING TURKISH
TÜRKÇE ÖĞRETİMİNDE DEĞERLER EĞİTİMİNİN UYGULANMASİNDA ÖĞRETMEN GÖRÜŞLERİ

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Number of pages : 303-312

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the realization levels of values education implementations in teaching Turkish by taking the opinions of Turkish teachers. The sample of this study conducted in the survey model comprises 108 Turkish teachers employed at different secondary schools in Erzurum, Bayburt, Gümüşhane and Trabzon in the Spring semester of 2015/2016 academic year. “Teachers’ opinions on the implementation of values education in teaching Turkish scale”, which consists of 21 questions in the form of a 5-point Likert-type scale allows responses of “always, often, sometimes, rarely, never”, and it was prepared by considering the “Values Education Yearly Plan” published jointly by Erzurum Governorship and Provincial Directorate for National Education in accordance with the aim of this study, and receiving opinions of Turkish educators, Turkish teachers and domain experts. The data were evaluated by performing frequency analysis in the SPSS 18 package program. Validity and reliability of the scale were found to be 0.81 as the Cronbach's Alpha value as a result of analysis, and 0.649 as the test statistic as a result of the KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) test. This result shows that the scale applied in the study is valid and reliable.As a result of the study, it was found that Turkish teachers implemented the cleaning value always; salutation and smile, tolerance, determination and stability, helpfulness, compassion and grace, friendship values often; love and respect, patience, apologizing and forgiveness, empathy, gift giving, and fidelity values sometimes; saving, responsibility, sacrifice, fairness, generosity, reliability values rarely in values education in teaching Turkish.

Keywords

Turkish teachers, Implementation of values education, teacher opinions.

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