Abstract:

The research compares the perceptions and attitudes of the 6th-grade students of General Secondary School and Imam Hatip Secondary School toward the Law and Justice course. For this purpose, research was carried out involving 161 students who were taking Law and Justice lessons in 6th grade at a General Secondary School (82) and Imam Hatip Secondary School (79) in the Sultanbeyli district. In the study, which was designed with a quantitative but non-experimental descriptive research model, the “Perception and Attitude Questionnaire toward the Law and Justice Course” was used to measure students' perceptions and attitudes. The research data were transferred to the SPSS 26 program and the perceptions and attitudes of the students towards the Law and Justice course were analyzed by t-Test and ANOVA tests according to various variables (gender, monthly income, and parental education level). Accordingly, the perception and attitude averages of the General Secondary School students toward the Law and Justice course were higher than the Imam Hatip Secondary School students. A significant difference was found only between the Imam Hatip Secondary School independent variable and the family monthly income variables regarding the students' perceptions and attitudes toward the Law and Justice course and their attitude toward the content of the Law and Justice course. Accordingly, various suggestions were made based on the results obtained for the sub-objectives according to the research findings.

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