A solution proposal for high school students to transfer values education to their lives: Action research

Year 2025, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 179 - 186, 30.09.2025

Mehmet Akif Demirelli

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17208326

Abstract

The aim of this study is to propose a solution for high school students to transfer their education on values education to their lives. The researcher prepared a training content consisting of 8 sessions on transferring values education to life for high school students. The implementation conditions of the prepared training content were announced at the school and 18 of the 30 students who voluntarily wanted to participate in the study were included in the study, who received the lowest score according to the scale scores. The study was conducted with action research design, one of the qualitative research methods. Students' ability to transfer values to their lives was analyzed with the Values Based Life Scale and a semi-structured form developed by the researchers. SPSS program was used to analyze the scale data and content analysis was used to analyze the semi-structured form. As a result of the study, students' post-test scores of transferring values to their lives, valuable life and life satisfaction were significantly higher than their pre-test scores. According to the answers given by the students within the scope of the semi- structured form, it was concluded that the values education they received in their family, school and social environments before the study was not sufficient and they had difficulties in applying it to their lives, but with the education, they were willing to apply values to their lives in school, family and social environments and the education applied improved them.

Keywords

Value , Transfer to life , high school student , value education

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