Zihinsel Yetersizliği Olan Bireylerle Çalışan Öğretmenlerin Cinsel Eğitime Yönelik Tutumları ve Etik Durumlarının Karşılaştırılması

Abstract

This study was carried out to research whether there is a relationship between the attitudes towards sex education of teachers who work with intellectually disabled people and their ethical positions. Sexual inclinations may cause negative results if not directed correctly. The importance of sex education for intellectually disabled people is a well known fact.  It is believed that determining the factors that affect the attitudes of teachers who work with intellectually disabled people towards sex education, the elimination of negative factors and the provision of positive factors will minimize the issues in the cited field. The importance of ethical values comes to the fore in this context. A total of 329 teachers were reached in 7 districts of Istanbul within the purview of the study, which is a survey model in relational patterns.  As a result of the analysis carried out, a significant difference was found in favor of special education teachers in their attitudes towards sex education with regard to the variable field of expertise, and covering all sub factors; and a significant difference was also found in favor of intellectually disabled people with regard to the variable: presence of other intellectually disabled people in their social environment. When the Ethic Position Questionnaire data were analyzed it was found that average scores of the teachers for the idealism sub-dimension were significantly higher than the average score calculated for the relativity sub-dimension. A significant difference between attitudes towards sex education and ethic position was not found.