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Our country has institutions where non-formal education activities are carried out in many fields to meet the educational needs of individuals from various age groups. When the field of education is religious education, non-formal religious education activities are officially carried out by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (DIB) through various institutions. One of the institutions where non-formal religious education activities are carried out is the Qur’an courses. There are many categories according to the age groups and characteristics of the people addressed by the Qur’an courses. The preschool period is very important in terms of education, as it is the period in which development takes place the fastest and the foundation of various knowledge, skills, and mental abilities is laid. Due to the importance given to preschool education, the Presidency of Religious Affairs launched Qur’an courses for the 4-6 age group in 2013. These courses, which have been put into action by considering many parameters, aim to enable preschool students to learn the basic values of Islam in accordance with their own level and to meet the Qur’an in a healthy environment. For this purpose, DIB has prepared a half-day and a full-day education program of 25 and 30 hours each for the 4-6 age group. The program has five basic learning areas: Religious Studies, Values Education, the Qur’an, Complementary Acquisitions, and Nutrition and Cleaning. Since the age group being educated is in a critical period in terms of development, the Directorate General of Education Services of the Presidency of Religious Affairs attaches importance to restructuring these courses in line with changing conditions and needs. For this purpose, it carries out monitoring and evaluation activities. To support these activities, many academic studies have been carried out and are still being carried out to improve the educational quality of the Qur'an courses for the 4-6 age group since the day they were put into practice and to identify and eliminate the deficiencies that may exist over time. This study, which was carried out in the Muş province, was shaped on the teacher, student, and parent, which is defined as the pillar of education, and was fulfilled to determine the satisfaction-expectation levels of the parents about the Qur’an courses for the 4-6 age group and to make evaluations in line with these views. In the research, parents’ views on the issues such as: the reasons for choosing the courses, the physical and educational equipment of the courses, the religious education given in the courses, and the professional qualifications of the course instructors are included. For this reason, it is foreseen that the study is important in terms of increasing the quality of the education given in the Qur’an courses for the 4-6 age group and identifying and eliminating the existing deficiencies and problems. The study was prepared with the case study pattern, which is one of the qualitative research approaches. A semi-structured interview form was used as a data collection tool. While preparing the interview form, a literature study was conducted, and the questionnaire questions prepared on the subject were examined and 4 academicians were consulted in the field of religious education. The study group consists of 20 people determined by convenience sampling method among 197 people who send their children to Qur’an courses in the 4-6 age group in the province of Muş. In the study, the data obtained after the interview with the parents were transferred to the computer, analyzed one by one in accordance with the purpose of the research and coded, and the data with the same meaning were combined under the same code. To increase the validity and reliability of the research, the generated codes were interpreted by reaching the frequencies and percentages that were categorized under common themes with the Nvivo 12 program. As a result of the research, it was found that the expectations of the parents from the course were met to a large extent, the courses were physically suitable for education, the teachers’ religious education, pedagogy, etc. It has been concluded that the course is equipped in all areas, the activities in the course are sufficient in terms of time and content, the parents willingly send their children to the course, and they will recommend the courses to the people around them. Ethical permission for the study was obtained with the approval of the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Committee of Muş Alparslan University, dated 10.11.2022-70302.

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