Religious and Ethical Values in Example of Ten Works

The fairy tales, lullabies, stories and novels, which are listened during childhood, affect not only our inner World but also our religious and ethical development. In this research, it is questioned that, whether the 100 Basic Works which was recommended by Ministry of Education in 2005 affect the childern’s religious and ethical development and how these books interpret the religious and ethical values.

In this research we tried to answer these questions briefly: how the religious and ethical values were explained in these books chosed from the 100 Basic Works, which of those values were placed in Religious Culture and Ethical Knowledge educational programme? Can this literature be used in educational of religious and ethical values? Can it be used in Religious Culture and Ethical Knowledge lessons? How these works affect the students’ religious and ethical education.

In this research, some religious and ethical values were pointed with, the method of descriptive field search, then these values were interpretted. After that, the questionaires prepared basically from these Works, were applicated to 200 students who are at 1.class of different types of high schools. Then, students and teachers were interviewed and the findings have been evaluated with SPSS programs, t- test, factor analysis and chi-square techniques.

Consequently, it was seen that the religious and ethical values were pointed intensely in these works. The students read then and are affected, but the students in Religious Culture and Ethical Knowledge have some mental conflicts because of that they see these works as literal works only.  Besides that, we need the Works which explain these values by connecting them to our time without limitting them to a certain group of people or term, and which take the interests and needs of students into consideration.