Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to study the orientations of professional high school students from primary school to professional high school and the feelings of affiliation (school commitment) as a value within the framework of student views. In the framework of the study, a semi-structured interview form developed by researchers was applied to 54 students who studied in a professional high school in the province of Erzurum in September 2016-2017. The data obtained was analyzed by visual analysis method. According to the results of the analysis, the students in primary and secondary school wanted to be a lot of police and teachers, the number of those who go and don’t go to professional high school with their own desires was very close to each other, the number of those who feel and don’t feel to school was very close to each other, the students prefer professional high school and they were not generally informed and they would not recommend professional high school to others.