Abstract:

The education in our country was considered a respected profession until very recently. However, the prestige of the profession reduced and the preference reasons has changed with a team experienced failures in our educational system in recent years. The program of Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge (religious education) is constantly changing and is still debate the future of this teaching department. This department is located in a recent semester in the Faculty of Education, from 2012 until now department is taken into the Faculty of Theology and gives the last student with that name. In this study, it has been aimed to investigate the profession’ choises and the prospects for the future of teacher of religious education in the degree program. The qualitative research method, case study research design was used. The study group has been constituded by voluntary religious education department teacher candidates from Haci Bektas Veli Nevsehir University Faculty of Theology in 2015-2016 academic year. Datas were collected by using semi-structured interview technique and datas were analyzed by using content analysis. The teacher candidates gave more than one answer to each question, for that the frequency calculation was enacted rather than the number of teachers percent considering the number of responses. Qualitative datas obtained by interview techniques digitized by frequencies and the percentages were obtained and interpreted.

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