Attitudes of students in public high schools toward philosophy lesson (A research in Büyükçekmece district of İstanbul)

The research has been conducted to study attitudes of the last grade students in the public high schools towards philosophy lesson. The attitudes, towards philosophy lesson, of those students who has attended to the survey have been studied according to students? socio-economical and demographical features. Research has been conducted by means of definitive research model. Z-test for variants with two categories, but one-way ANOVA for variants with more than two categories has been applied in order to determine whether the attitudes of the students showed differences on the basis of multiple features of the students. Tukey HSD, a post hoc test, has been applied to determine among which categories the differences seen in ANOVA analysis have been occurred. Research space was consisted of students from 8 public high schools in Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul city. As a consequence of this research, students as subjects of the research are seen to be in an irresolute attitude space very close to positive attitude space towards philosophy lesson. That female students were more positive than male students about philosophy lesson has been detected. It has a observed that students who read poetry, art and psychology books were more positive towards philosophy lesson than ones who did not so. It has also revealed the fact that students who did not watch serials and entertainment programs on TV were more positive than those who did so. That students who read books regularly on daily basis were more positive towards philosophy lesson than those who did infrequently read books has been figured out by the consequences of the research.. Key Words: Education, Philosophy, Attitude, Attitude Theories, Attitude Measures.