COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Primary Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET AYDIN

Offered to

Primary Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Education

Course Objective

To help students how they can be open minded when they are teaching religion and how they can think in critical way. With this, students will become well educated and knowledgeable individuals who are able to criticise and evaluate all evidences before come to conclusion especially in religious topics. Critical thinking is a disciplined mind activity that guides people s lives by having the principle of justice. In religious topics, what people experiencing and how they reach the religious information that they trust, is the main subject of critical thinking. Therefore, critical thinking will help us in close looking at the religion we live and in being more aware of it. So, this means that religious beliefs are built on knowledge and also means we accept the religion is in thinkable areas. In this context, we should embrace that critical thinking must be considered with morality; in other words, the principles of critical thinking are not so different from the principles of morality. Critical thinking as understood as above, can find its place in the religion and on the other side, the religion indeed requires this kind of thinking.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Descartes, Metot Üzerine Konuşma (Aklını Iyi Sevketmek ve Bilimlerde Hakikati Araştırmak Için), çev., Atakan Altınörs, Paradigma yay., Istanbul 2010.
2. John Locke, Hoşgörü Üstüne Bir Mektup, çevç, Melih Yürüşen, Liberte yay., Istanbul 2005.
3. Gazali, el-Munkızu Mine'd-Dalâl, çev., Hilmi Güngör, Maarif Basımevi, Ankara 1960.
4. Ibn Rüşd, Faslu'l-Makâl, çev., Bekir Karlığa, Işaret Yay., istanbul
5. Antony Flew, Dosdoğru Düşünmenin Yolu: Eleştirel Akıl Yürütmeye Giriş, çev., Hakan Gündoğdu, liberte yay. Istanbul 2008.
6. Platon, Sokrates'in Savunması, çev., Niyazi Berkes, Solyal yay., istanbul 2009.
7. Platon, Menon, çev., Ahmet Cevizci, Sentez Yay., 2007.
8. Platon, Phaidon, çev., Hamdi Ragıp Atademir, Sosyal yay. Istanbul 2001.
9. Orhan Özdemir, Eleştirel Düşünme, Kriter Basım Yayın dağıtım, 2008.
10. Hakan Gündoğdu, Eleştirel Düşünme ve Eleştirel Düşünme Öğretimine Dair Bazı Yanılgılar, C.B.Ü. Sosoyal Bilimler Dergisi, c.7/1, 2009 (ss.57-74).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Questionnaire, Analyse, Lecture, case study.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mehmetaydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes