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Eğitim ile Bencillik Arasındaki İlişki: Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Örneği

Literatürde iktisat ve işletme öğrencilerinin diğer disiplinlerin öğrencilerinden daha bencil oldukları sonucuna ulaşan çalışmalar yer almaktadır. Özellikle küresel finansal kriz, ekonomi eğitiminin etik değerler üzerinde olumsuz etkilerinin olduğu hakkında ciddi endişelere yol açmıştır Bu çalışmanın amacı, anket yardımıyla ekonomi eğitimi alan öğrencilerin daha bencil olup olmadıklarını diğer disiplinlerin öğrencileri ile karşılaştırarak analiz etmektir. Anket, Kütahya Dumlupınar Üniversitesinin iktisat, işletme, uygulamalı bilimler, sosyoloji ve ilahiyat gibi beş farklı bölümündeki 435 öğrenciye uygulanmıştır. Bu çalışma, bencillik konusunda disiplinler arasında anlamlı farklılıkların olduğunu göstermiştir. Özellikle, ekonomi çalışmak, öğrencileri diğer disiplinlere nazaran daha bencil yapabilmektedir. Diğer taraftan, dini ve ahlaki değerlere odaklı ilahiyat öğrencileri ise diğerlerine göre çok daha fazla insaflı olma eğilimi taşıyabilmektedirler.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Eğitim, Bencillik, Etkinlik, Adalet, Anket Çalışması

The Relationship Between Education and Selfishness: The Case of Dumlupınar University

The global crisis has raised serious concerns about that education system devoid of religious and moral values, especially economics and mangement studying, has negative effects on social, political and economics life. Some papers have founded that students of economics and business management are more rational, in other words, more selfish than students of other disciplines. This paper claims that students of theology are less selfish, in other words, more fairness and cooperativeness than students of other departments. To this end, the paper examines relationship between selfishness and education in the Faculty of Economics, Theology and Arts and Sciences by a questionnaire survey. This paper shows that there is significantly differences among disipliniaries on selfishness. Especially, studying economics might make students more selfish than other disipliniaries. On the other hand, theology students focusing religional and ethical values might tend to be much more fair than the others.

Keywords:

Education, Selfishness, Efficiency, Fairness, Questionnaire Survey,

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