Değer Eğitimi Modeli Olarak Ahilik

This thesis aims contributing to building a particular Turkish Society Values Education Model, adapted to contemporary needs through the model framed by the support of Union of Akhism, which has proved to be a successful model by means of its activities dating back to past and the trained qualified members equipped with diverse competences. The thesis is produced by using one of the qualitative techniques named “The Document Analysis”. During the research, the scientific resources in the area such as academic works, thesis, research reports, symposium and congress reports have been studied to support the thesis. In this context, firstly, Akhism and its Values Education Model are presented diversely as an educational model to be used respectively. The results obtained at the end of the study can be summarized as follows: Akhism has been implemented as a never-ending process and has correspondences with the contemporary education system “lifelong learning” in which the education does not stop at a specific level. Akhism has not found enough the common understanding of routinized education whose priority is only about the vocational competences considering human beings are supreme and unique creations but designed and implemented a new multi-dimensional model equipping the individuals with social and spiritual values together with professional competences. Akhism has successfully run the process to provide adaption and internalization of the desired behaviors such as observation, learning through modeling, education through communication, sampling, question, and answer model, which are all equivalents of today’s Values Education Model. In line with these findings, suggestions have been made towards the applications of today | s value education.