@article{2020,title={Investigation of the Concept of Child through the Wievs of the Child Development Program Students},abstractNode={In this study, it is aimed to reveal what the concept of child is in the wievs of vocational high school child development program students. Therefore, case study, one of the qualitative research patterns, was used. Research was carried out with 13 child development associate degree students studying at a public university in the Aegean region of Turkey during the 2018-2019 spring semester. Participants were determined according to the critical case sampling method, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. 13 participants from 2nd grade students (6 at the lower academic level and 7 at the upper academic level) were interviewed. In order to obtain the opinions of the participants, 4 questions were determined. The interviews were held face to face and the data was obtained with the semi-structured interview form. The data obtained from the interviews were written on the interview form and about 25 pages of raw data were reached. The interview data were coded by 3 different people. Findings were tried to be explained within the scope of 4 themes emerging in line with the data obtained from the codings. As a result, while the participants tried to describe the concept of child with the terms bearing different meanings, they think that the society does not have the desired information regarding children and child development and it does not show the necessary respect to children. In addition, it was found out that the participant do not have detailed and thorough information on child development, even though they have partial knowledge on children and their development, and that their fundamental objective in choosing and studying this program is the sympathy for children.},author={A. Seda SARACOĞLU-Hilal Hatice ÜLKÜ - Ümit GÖZEL},year={2020},journal={Turkish Studies-Educational Sciences}}