Abstract:

The research was conducted to examine the effect of the "Children's Rights and Education" course on the attitudes of university students towards children's rights. The study group consists of a total of 101 students from the Department of Child Development, 2nd grade formal education and secondary education. The study was carried out in the experimental model with pretest-posttest control group. According to the model, experimental and control groups were determined; For both groups, the " Children's Rights Attitude Scale (ÇHTÖ)" developed by Kahraman Kepenekçi in 2006 was applied. Children in the experimental group were given Child Rights and Education course for 14 weeks. After the training, the measurement tool applied to the experimental and control groups before the training was applied again as a post-test, and the data were analyzed and evaluated. According to the results of the research, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the pretest mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the attitude scale towards children's rights at the university (p<.05). After the Child Rights and Education course on children's rights, there was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group between the posttest mean scores of the experimental and control groups from the attitude scale towards children's rights (p˂.05).

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