“Determining Candidates of Religion Culture and Moral Knowledge Teacher's Attitude Towards Art and Role of Art in Contributing to their Personal Development”

Abstract

Art exists in the past and the present of human being and it is one of the basic phenomenon's that will continue to exist in the future. It is an important necessity to understand the art and to spare a part in life for it for all the people. Also religion, has a past as old as humanity, holds an important position in the lives of human beings. At first sight, the religion and the art are thought to be totally different fields from each other. For this reason, little or no place is given to art in the curriculum of programs of the Religion Culture and Moral Knowledge. However, the expectation from the teachers of Religion Culture and Moral Knowledge is not only transformation of the content of lesson to the students like a reverend but also conduct lessons with the sensitivity of mastership. Besides the point that the candidates of Religion Culture and Ethics teacher's qualifications as a teacher and also personal development, to run the art errand and also to benefit of art from this aspect is the main objective of this project.“The main objective of this project is to determine that if the educational practices that are organized with the aim of creating an awareness for the art, impact the viewpoints of candidate of Religion Culture and Ethics teachers towards to art or not”.This project is thought to be important and also necessary for that it could make the candidate teacher have a unique and rich perspective towards to art. The first and the last weeks of the application stages are spared for the survey studies. The course content is transferred to students with the help of expert's presentations in the application process that covers the fourteen week's part of one academic year. The course content consists of not only the nature, basic concept and cases of the dealt art branch and art thoughts but also its place and importance in the history of human being. At the end of this research, it is obviously arises again that lessons including basic art information is necessary to take part in the curriculums for teachers in an adequate rank, because art supplies important contributions both the professional adequacy and also personal development of teacher.