Abstract:

Access to daily and broad education is the right of each individual. It also includes religious education. Disabled persons need special teaching, methods, experience and awareness from time to time regarding their participation in education. The training aimed at interaction with disadvantaged individuals in higher education programs that lead to professions, including religious officials or religious educators, can be ignored. This study has been aimed at identifying the preparation and willingness of the students of the Theology Faculty, who are a religious officer or a religious educator candidate, to work with disadvantaged individuals in the framework of social services. In the framework of the research, the survey was applied to the students of the 3rd and 4th classes of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Bursa, and analyzed by qualitative and quantitative methods. The study found that some of the participants were willing to work/communicate with disadvantaged persons, while some were not willing, and that they did not have sufficient knowledge and preparations. Therefore, the teaching programmes of the Theological Faculties in which religious officials are educated are seen as a need for the training of disadvantaged individuals in the field of social service and the necessary arrangements for communication and interaction with them.

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