Farklılıklara Saygı Eğitim Programının Öğrencilerin Farklılıklara Saygı Düzeyine Etkisi

Abstract

In the present study is the impact of Respect of Diversities Educational Program (RDEP) prepared by using the 3th grade Social Studies respect of diversities objectives on the student’s respect of diversities level is assessed. The research was conducted on a total of 79 3th grade students including 39 students experimental group and 40 students control group in Abdurrahman Nermin Bilimli Primary School Province of Bağcılar, İstanbul. In the study pre-test post-test group quasi-experimental method was used. “Respect of Diversities Attitude Scale” developed by Ekmişoğlu (2007) was used to assess the level of student respect of diversity attitudes before and after the RDEP implementation. RDEP was implemented on the experimental group two lessons a week for 14 weeks by the researcher himself in the school the researcher works in 2013-2014 Educational Year Spring Semester. After the implementation of RDEP, the respect of diversities scale used as pre-test was applied again to evaluate the impact of program on experimental group and to assess the difference between two groups. Results of this study shows that the experimental group which taken the RDEP the level of respect of diversities more than the control group. The impact of RDEP on family, social structure, gender, disability and diverse background dimensions of program to experimental group and to control group Kalem Eğitim ve İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi 2018, 8(2), 387-417 389 individually. Program taken experimental group got higher points in all areas than both the pre-test and the control group. As seen from the results the positive impact of the RDEP on improving the level of student respect of diversity attitudes is obvious.