Values education in prose works of Mevlâna

Studies on values education in literary works have informed us about this issue during recent years, however there isn?t any study that shows which methods and techniques used to teach these values. The aims of this study are to investigate the social values in prose works of Mevlânâ, who has understood the difficulties of his own society in 1200s, has preached sermons to unite the people and awaken them, has enlightened not only his own period but also our era with his universalide as and works, and which methods and techniques that were used to teach these values. Another aim of this study is to correlate them with our current education style. For that purpose, ?Fihi Mafih?, ?Mecalis-i Seba? and ?Mektubat? ,which are the prose works of Mevlânâ, have been analysed with document review method with in the qualitative research models, and the data have been analysed with content analysis method. The findings of the study in relation to the analysis can be summarised in that way: 1-Mevlana tries to unite the society by transferring values in his prose works. The main goal of Mevlana is neither reading a poem nor narrating a story. Mevlana aims at educating people according to their readiness level. His Works adres to readers of allages. Mevlana, supports explicitness so that the society can understand him, but he leads the people to think with representations in 1200s. 2-Mevlana gives importance to story based learning method, case study, question answer method and traditional lecture method in his prose works. He tells abstract concepts with concrete expression,and this way helps the society understand the texts easily. 3-Mevlana asks for the people adopt positive values, such as trueness, honesty, goodness, being fair, wisdom, love, being tolerant, and he asks for the people avoid negative values, such as lying, having bad habits, insincerity, ambition, hate, rage and ignorance. Consequently, methods of transferring values in the prose works of Mevlana, who is sufi, poet and educator of 13th century, overlap with the modern methods and techniques. Findings support that Mevlana is a scholar who is beyond his epoch. Key Words: Values Education, Mevlânâ, Fihi Ma Fih, Mecalis-i Seb?a, Mektubat, Traditional Lecture Method, Story Based Learning Method, Case Study and Question-Answer Method.