INVESTIGATION OF THE CURRICULUM OF THE COURSES PREPARED FOR BLIND/LOW VISION STUDENTS AND TAUGHT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

GÖRMEYEN/AZ GÖREN ÖĞRENCİLER İÇİN HAZIRLANAN VE ÖZEL EĞİTİM MESLEK OKULU’NDA OKUTULAN DERSLERİN ÖĞRETİM PROGRAMLARININ İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make a descriptive analysis of the Turkish, mathematics, social life, religious culture and ethics, visual arts and music curricula of special education vocational schools for blind/low vision students. Document analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The data in the study were determined by criterion sampling method. It was taken as a criterion that it was approved by the Board of Education and Discipline in the 2024-2025 academic year. For this reason, the curricula of Turkish, mathematics, social life, religious culture and ethics, visual arts and music courses prepared for students with low vision/low vision in special education vocational schools constitute the research data. According to the results of the research, in the special education vocational school curricula prepared for blind/low vision students, the highest number of objectives is in the visual arts course and the lowest number of objectives is in the Turkish course. In the number of target behaviours, it was seen that the highest number of target behaviours was in mathematics and the lowest number of target behaviours was in music. According to Bloom's taxonomy, in Turkish, mathematics, social life, religious culture and ethics, visual arts and music curricula, most of the objectives are concentrated in the cognitive domain, then in the psychomotor domain and finally in the affective domain.