University Students' Perceptions and Attitudes about Freedom of Claiming Educational Rights: Ege University
Author(s) -
Recep Cengiz Akçay,
Püren Üzüm
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
universal journal of educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2332-3213
pISSN - 2332-3205
DOI - 10.13189/ujer.2016.040905
Subject(s) - academic freedom , perception , likert scale , higher education , university faculty , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , political science , mathematics education , law , medical education , medicine , neuroscience , developmental psychology
The main purpose of this study is to define perceptions and attitudes of university students about freedom of claiming their educational rights. Research was designed within the framework of phenomenology which is one of the qualitative research designs. The study was conducted with 10 students from EGE University in the academic year of 2014-2015. The participants of the study were determined with the purposeful sampling method in two phases. In this research, students were interviewed in accordance with semi-structured interview technique. Data were analyzed with induction analyzing method and the findings of research were debated by comparing with literature. According to the research findings, it is observed that students' attitudes of claiming right are not occurred. Also students' consciousness of claiming right seems to be quite inadequate.
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