Özet:

The purpose of this study is to identify the levels of moral maturity of students studying in the Department of Education and to give recommendations for the educational activities carried out in the relevant department. The research was used as a data collection tool developed by Shengün as the "Ethical Adult Scale" and the research data was obtained from 482 students who studied in the educational faculty of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal, Star Technical, Marmara, Kastamonu, Gazi and Afyon Kocatepe Universities. The study finds that the average moral maturity score of the relevant department students is x̄=279, 89. Relational analyses have also been conducted to test the status of significant differentiation between the different variables of the scale. In the end, gender, age and religious self-definition form variables have been found to cause significant differences in the scale average. According to the results, the research data showed that even though the level of moral maturity of the students of the school’s classroom teaching department, which will be the teachers of the classroom tomorrow, is relatively high, there are still aspects that need to be improved in this field. Furthermore, considering that religions encourage a moral life and that those who define themselves as "religious" have higher levels of moral maturity than those who define themselves as "low-religious", the class teaching department, which is at least the demand in this direction, should provide a supporting religious education through selectively taught courses that will be offered through the cooperation with the Faculty of Theology in the point of increasing the religious knowledge and accumulation of students.

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Özet:

This study was carried out to identify the level of moral maturity of students studying in Departments of Elementary Education at Faculties of Education, and thus, to make recommendations for the educational activities carried out in the relevant departments. In this study, descriptive and relational survey models were used together, and the survey technique was employed to collect the needed data. The “Moral Maturity Scale” developed by Şengün was used as a data collection instrument. Research data were collected from 482 students studying at the Faculties of Education of the following universities: Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal, Yıldız Technical, Marmara, Kastamonu, Gazi, and Afyon Kocatepe. During data analysis, the mean scale score was calculated first, and then relational analyses were carried out using t-tests and analyses of variance.