THE USE OF CASE STUDIES IN GAINING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS: AN EXAMPLE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CURRICULUM PRACTICE

This study was carried out with the aim of designing and implementing case studies in order to gain entrepreneurship skills in the Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge course and to determine the effectiveness of case studies while gaining entrepreneurship skills in religious education processes. In the research, the theoretical framework of entrepreneurship education was adapted according to the elements of religious education. One of the starting points of the study was the inadequacy of the studies for the development of “entrepreneurship” skills in line with the General Objectives and Basic Principles of Turkish National Education, which is one of the skills brought to the fore in the context of the updated teaching content within the scope of the Maarif education model and specified in the DKAB curriculum. In this context, in order to integrate entrepreneurship skills into religious education processes, interdisciplinary study method was adopted and case studies were prepared. Original case studies were applied at the determined grade level. With these practices, it was revealed in which ways the awareness, perception and skill levels of the students towards entrepreneurial activities were affected in the religious education process. In the study, the data were obtained by using the case study method, which is one of the qualitative research methods. While analyzing the data, observation, interview, document analysis and content analysis methods were used. The data before and after the application were recorded during the application and the study in line with these data; Findings and discussion, conclusion and recommendations sections were created.