Attitudes of religious culture and moral knowledge teachers and religious vocational high school teachers towards human nature

This study is composed of three chapters exclusive of introduction and conclusion sections. In the introduction, the problem, purpose and importance of the study are elaborated. The first chapter discusses meanings ascribed to the human nature in time in philosophical, psychological and Islamic perspective. In the second chapter the model, population and sample of the study are discussed, along with data collection tool and data collection processes. The fourth chapter is devoted to the interpretation of statistical findings from the data collection tool in the light of the literature teachings and based on the study queries. The purpose of this study is to determine assumptions and attitudes of Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge teachers and Religious Vocational High School teachers towards human nature, and to analyze these attitudes with several variables. This quantitative study is carried out with scanning (survey) method. The population of this descriptive study carried out using scanning method consists of Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge teachers and Religious Vocational High School teachers working in state schools in Trabzon during 2014-2015 academic year. Given the average scores (5,93) in human nature sub-dimension, it is observed that the attitude of the attendants towards the human nature is in general positive. However, it is determined that the participants gave negative results for confidence to mankind (trustworthiness), altruism and complexity. In view of the relationship between the demographical features of the participants and their attitude towards human nature, it is concluded that based on the marital status married teachers perceive humans to be simple and uncomplex creatures whereas according to age variable, the teachers at the age of 18-25 perceive human nature to be unstable, and based on the years of seniority, experienced teachers are more prone to make generalization about humans. Keywords: Religious education, human, human nature, attitude and belief, Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge teacher, Religious Vocational High School teacher.