AN INVESTIGATION ON CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN SECONDARY EDUCATION RELIGIOUS CULTURE AND ETHICS COURSES

Abstract

This research is aimed to determine which graduate constructivist learning environments are provided in religious culture and moral knowledge courses by making researches on student’s perceptions. On the other way, students’ views about constructivist learning environments who receive education at secondary education, their perception during courses, learning environment provided in religious culture and moral knowledge courses, and in which graduate constructivist learning environment specifications are formed are within the compass of this research’s goals. In this research, a descriptive survey design was used. The studying universe of this research is high school students in Erzurum city center. The research was carried out with 365 students in five schools; Anatolian high school, science high school, imam hatip high school and vocational high school. We used the development of a scale on assessing constructivist learning environments as the data collection tool by taking the necessary official permission. The scale practiced on the determined sample was primarily computerized and the data was subjected to outlier analyze. In the process of searching for answers to the research we used t Test for Independent Sample, Analysis of Variance ANOVA and Kruskal Wallis H Test.  Students’ perceptions towards the education environment in religious culture and moral knowledge courses don’t change respectively according to their sex and the classroom educative graduate in which they take education but on the other hand, it has been observed that this perception factor change distinguishably by their school and AGNO. In the result of the research, we observed that student’s perception of constructivist learning environments in religious culture and moral knowledge courses is higher at science high school and social sciences high schools than the other school type. School and students educative succeeding graduate effect constructivist learning environments perception and so the cases in which constructivist learning environments perception is high are observed in the schools whose educative succeeding have a high level.  Article visualizations

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