Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
World Conference on Educational Sciences, Nicosia, CYPRUS, 4 - 07 Şubat 2009, cilt.1, ss.805-813
This study is carried out to find out the reasons of students for participating into civil society initiatives. This study is a descriptive research and the sample is consisting of 257 students, who are studying in Faculty of Education, Departments of Pre-School Teacher Training, Classroom Teacher Training, in Akdeniz University. Preliminary Information form, prepared by the author, is used to get demographic features of students and Students Participation to Civil Society Initiative questionnaire is used concerning these topics: the reasons for participating/ no participating, aim and duration of participating, the projects they participated in, how did they learn about projects, difficulties that they faced with reasons of leaving the projects, opinions about contribution. The questionnaire, prepared and applied by the author, filled by students, and the questionnaire was analyzed by using SPSS 10.0. While analyzing the data, frequency/percentage value was used and it was found out that, the reasons of participating to a project whether differ or not concerning gender, department, and class year according to Kay-Kare Test. The relation between the class year of students and participation to civil society initiative is significant. % 49.8 of students is participating to projects and % 50.2 of students is not participating. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved