Özet:

This research, which is designed with a descriptive survey model, aims to examine the citizenship perceptions of high school students with the spatial analysis method. The universe of the research consists of students in secondary education institutions (high school) in Siirt city center and Baykan, Eruh, Kurtalan, Pervari, Şirvan, Tillo districts of Siirt province in the 2020-2021 academic year. The participants of the research were determined by the stratified sampling method. Citizenship perception of the students was measured with the “Citizenship Perception Scale (CPS)”. Arithmetic mean, frequency, standard deviation, t test, Kruskal -Wallis H test and spatial analysis were used in the analysis of the research data. In addition to the statistical significance of the difference between the means in the study, the effect size values were also calculated. According to the results of the research, it was determined that the citizenship perceptions of the students were generally at "high" level, and in terms of spatial analysis method, the citizenship perceptions of the students showed a higher distribution in Pervari compared to other districts. Besides, it was determined that the “gender” variable had a significant difference on the citizenship perceptions of the students, while the "income status of the families" did not cause a significant difference. In line with the results obtained in the study, various suggestions were presented to practitioners and researchers.

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