Evaluation of curriculum in the frame of the questions off- program in the class of religious culture and ethics of the high-school students

Student characteristics and needs are one of the important factors that are emphasized in the preparation of religious curriculum. Because in order for the information to be put into teaching to be understood and learned correctly by the students, it must be in accordance with the cognitive, affective, and developmental maturity of the students. At this point, the questions asked by the students give us clues about the religious development and needs of the students. In this study, it is aimed to examine the curriculum within the framework of the out-of-curriculum questions posed by secondary school students to DKAB (religion culture and moral) teachers. In this study, which is a qualitative study product, the case design was used. In this study which was conducted at Batman city center, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 DKAB teachers who had worked in secondary education for at least three years. The results were compiled according to the content analysis. In the interviews conducted during the research process, the non-program questions posed by students to their teachers were divided into six categories and subcategories created under these categories. In the findings obtained, it was determined that the most frequently asked question of the secondary education students was related to faith. However, issues that are related to social life and suspicion against the necessity of religion were also on the agenda of the students. It was seen that the categories created and the titles that emerged in the sub-categories largely overlapped with the findings obtained in the studies on religious education and psychology of religion on secondary school students.