Browsing by Author "Peker, HS"

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    Current Tendencies in Postgraduate Theses Written in the Field of Art Education in Turkey
    Peker, HS; Dogan, P; Keles, YE
    The education activities that are performed for the purpose of expressing thoughts and impressions and raise the talent and creativity to an aesthetic level are expressed as art education. The purpose of this study is to examine the postgraduate theses conducted on art education in Turkey. The study was conducted as a qualitative study and the data were collected through the document analysis method. The research data were analyzed through content analysis. 74 postgraduate theses on art education that were searched by the term Art Education on YOK (Council of Higher Education) National Thesis Center database were accessed. 54 of the 74 postgraduate theses are master's theses and 20 of them are PhD dissertations. Among these theses, in total 48 theses were examined as 12 PhD dissertations and 36 master's theses. For the purpose of examining the theses accessed, the Thesis Examination Form was developed by the researchers towards the objective of the study. In this context, all of the open access -postgraduate theses that were conducted on the field of art education between the years of 2012-2017 were grouped from various aspects. The general assessments of the theses were made according to the institutes that they are affiliated with, years, universities, study groups, research models and data collection tools. In terms of the data analysis, frequency (f) was utilized and the findings were presented on graphs. According to the obtained data, most of the theses (11) were conducted on the years between 2014 and 2015. Between the years of 2012 and 2017, Gazi University is in the first place among the Turkish universities with the number of theses conducted in the field of art education. While qualitative methods (25) were preferred in the theses predominantly, quantitative methods followed the given situation. Almost all of the theses (%90) were conducted in an Institute of Education Sciences. Furthermore, the most frequently used data collection tool was a document/archive. Moreover, while the studies were conducted towards students they were designed as document oriented, and in the level of higher education, they were designed as prospective teacher/undergraduate student -oriented.
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    A Study on the Use of Social Networks by Turkish and German University Students in the Globalization Process
    Çelebi, N; Selçuk, G; Peker, HS
    Today's rapidly evolving technology is expanding the use of innovative communication technologies and their usage areas. to traditional communication technologies today; smartphones, laptop computers, handheld computers, and tablets are also added. Wireless communication technology removes time and space limits, allowing people to communicate both voiced and visual whenever and wherever they wish. Every day, millions of people communicate with each other through social networking networks and share their experience day by day with other network users. The social networks that people often use are also affecting interpersonal relationships. The purpose of this research is to determine the aims of Turkish and German university students to use social networks and how effective social influence is in interpersonal communication. A total of 338 students, 236 Turkish students studying at Karabuk University and 102 German students studying at Kassel University in Germany, participated in the research in the academic year of 2016-2017. A questionnaire developed by Ozdayi (2010), which will reveal the use of social networks by students as a data collection tool, was used. The questionnaire contains 11 open-ended questions and 13 items of social effect dimension of social networks developed as Likert type. Percentages, mean and t test for binary comparison were used as statistical analysis in the study. According to research findings; all students have smartphones and they use whatsapp, facebook and youtube most from social networks. By students, social media is used to look at mails, homework, study, follow current events, read news, communicate with friends, make new friends, get informed about activities, share videos and photos and have fun. Also by students travel, shopping, technology and cinema blogs are the most preferred. In the survey, in the social dimension of social networks; there was no significant difference between the groups regarding communication, self-expression, staying out of the group, becoming popular, joining groups, getting social environment, getting status in social environment and sharing. On the other hand, social networking has become an important means of communication and interaction among people today. For this reason, academicians should encourage students who are interested in new technology and communication applications to support the achievement of up-to-date information within the context of lifelong learning, and to conduct research for their own development in the teaching-learning process.