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The Investigation of Critical Thinking Dispositions of Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Candidates Abdulkadir Cekin
Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) Vol 9, No 2: May 2015
Publisher : Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (116.091 KB) | DOI: 10.11591/edulearn.v9i2.1718

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the critical thinking dispositions of religious culture and ethics teacher candidates in terms of some variables. The independent variables of the study are gender, high school types from which they graduated, birth place, motherland, education level of their parents, and family’s average income. The sample of the study is 226 teacher candidates in Ankara University and Kastamonu University, religion culture and ethics teaching department. The research is designed as a case study; the data is obtained by Measurement of California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory. The inventory is a lykert-type scale, has 51 items. The value of the overall reliability of measurement instrument (Cronbach Alpha) is 0.88. A one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent samples t-test are used to analyze the data. In the end of the study, it was found that religious culture and ethics teacher candidates think sufficiently critical.
Research on Social Participation Level of Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Candidates in Turkey Abdulkadir Cekin
Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) Vol 10, No 2: May 2016
Publisher : Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (90.397 KB) | DOI: 10.11591/edulearn.v10i2.3477

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Social participation is a very important skill in the context of socializing students. With the crucial process is likely to be related to students' social abilities, it is known social participation to be required some special educational activities. The aim of the research is to examine the social participation level of religious culture and ethics teacher candidates and to determine whether this level changes or not related to gender and high school graduation. The sample of the study is 222 teacher candidates at Kastamonu University, Faculty of Education, Department of Religious Culture and Ethics Teaching. General scanning method was used in this research. At the end of the research, it was found that the teacher candidates' social participation levels are high, they have confidence in themselves about the participation in social activities, there has occurred a significant differentiation in this level with regard to gender, but hasn't occurred a significant differentiation with regard to high school graduation.