Abstract:

In the recent years, value education has become one of the important study fields. It is foreseen thatit will maintain its importance for providing healty society order in the coming years. This researchaims to specify university students’ perpectives devoted to both value concepts and non govermental organizations – value relations within the context of values education. The research was designed with both quantitative and qualitative method. The study is descriptive in terms of quantitative method. In terms of qualitative method, universal and local value perceptions were asked toparticipants. In the analysis of quantitative datas, SPSS 15. 0 package software was used, percentage and frequency values were indicated. Furthermore, in the analysis of qualitative datas, contentanalysis method was used. Research’s study group comprises of 170 university students and graduate students in the age of between 18 – 28. Study group of university students involve in psychological counseling and guidance, Turkish education, primary school teacher training, computer andinstructional technologies, graduate students group comprises of management, economy, econometrics, public administration, literature, history, geography, music, religious culture and mathematics. In the light of research’s findings, it was reached to results that participants attach importance to non-govermental organizations in the process of value education, while participants carefamily, religion and tolerance as local values, they think peace, human rights and freedom as universal values and participants give particular importance to family value

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