Attitudes and Assessments of the Students Studying at the Secondary School for the Children with Hearing Impairments towards the Course of Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge: The Case of Amasya and Samsun

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine the hearing impaired students' attitudes towards the course of Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of nine questions was developed and administered to two secondary schools for hearing impaired students living in Amasya and Samsun. This survey was administered to 63 hearing impaired students and the answers given by these students were transferred to the computer and were interpreted. While making comments, it was benefited from the observations made during the study. As a result, it was found that hearing impaired students like the religious education classes but there are some problems about understanding of the subjects and the textbook. In the study, it was focused on the factors that cause those problems and made some suggestions towards to the removal of obstacles from the religious education of hearing impaired students.