The evaluation of students, teachers and manager's thoughts about some optional religion lessons on primary schools

The aim of this study is determine the student, teacher and managers opinions about some optional lessons such as "The life of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh)", "Holy Quran" and "Basic Religious Informations" which were teached at the schools of Antalya city centre since 2012-2013 education term. This study can fill the gap of the requires of the lessons, the problems in lessons, the attention of the officials gaps and to be a leader for this area. This study is a qualitative, completive multiple situation patterned study which is carried with a situational (sample cased) method. The study group has been chosen by voluntarily, with an easy reachable sampling method. The group is consisted of 12 students, 7 teacher, 7 manager which are located at Antalya city schools within the educational term of 2014-2015. The results has determined their views about the positive effects of "The life of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh)", "Holy Quran" and "Basic Religious Informations" optional lessons. At the end of the study, the views of this group was determined and the most important result was: Students mostly choose these lessons due to "complete their lack of informations". After this choice, with a high rate "increasing their scores" has been a second point. The effects of these lessons are to become a "patient", "respectful", "sensitive to the environment", "fair and honest", "thankful", "sincere prayer", "humble and tolerated", "sensitive to sins and God's sight", "prayer starting", "less slang using" and "respectful for people rights" people. On the other hand, the problems they faced while taking these lessons were, "the high number of students", "the less amount of time", "the demotivation for the lesson", "lack of the prayer room for applications", "no continuity for the lesson selections", "the lesson dishonouring efforts", "the lessons being brought fast and unready" and "content and document lack". Keywords: The life of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), Holy Quran, Basic Religious information's, Optional Lessons, 4+4+4 Education System, Religious Education