FOOTBALL REFEREES VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND THEIR VIEWS ON VALUES EDUCATION

The objective of the research is to determine football referees’ value orientations and their views on values education. The study was evaluated with a qualitative research design and carried out with the interview method. The research group consists of 17 football referees. The research group was determined by maximum variation sampling, one of the nonprobability sampling strategies and purposive sampling methods. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview form, and content analysis method was used in the analysis. According to the research results, it was determined that football referees are guided by characteristics such as praying, wearing jerseys believed to bring good luck, entering the field with the right foot, believing that a whistle given as a gift brings good luck, listening to music, being motivated by thinking, making self-criticism, a sense of justice and national feeling, that sports develop values such as being disciplined, being calm, being physically and spiritually dynamic, self-confidence, being able to empathize, being aware of responsibility, establishing dominance over the group, being ambitious, being patient, strengthening social relations, communication skills, gaining sports culture, being gentlemanly and sharing, and that it is important to include universal and national values in referee trainings and to apply psychological tests on value education.