Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ali BALTACI

Konular:Din Bilimi

DOI:10.33420/marife.625466

Anahtar Kelimeler:Religious Education,Higher Education,Dropout,Student,Absenteeism

Özet: School dropout is a problem that can have important social, economic, psychological and cultural consequences for students and educational institutions. In this research, the problem of school dropout in higher religious education institutions was discussed and possible solution suggestions of students and lecturers were also included. The study group of the research, which was designed in a phenomenological way, assigned to 36 students studying in theology / Islamic Sciences Faculties of (Ankara, Marmara, İstanbul, Çukurova, Dicle, Uludağ, Atatürk, Muş Alparslan, Ondokuz Mayıs, and Dokuz Eylül Universities) in Turkey’s seven geographic regions in the fall semester of 2019-2020 academic year, and consisted of 11 lecturers worked in same faculties. The criterion sampling technique, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used to determine the study group. According to the results of the study, the students prefer theology programs due to its employment opportunities and family orientation. In addition, dropout is common in the first years of the faculties. Students who drop out of school have low academic achievement and social cohesion in high school. Students drop out due to academic failure, adaptation problems to an academic and social environment, financial problems, health problems and problems related to belief conflicts. It is thought that this study, which strives to give a new and different discussion area to the religious education literature, will contribute to the field.

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