Faculty culture perception of university students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the university students' cultural perception of the faculty which they attend, who attend an academic organization. In this study which comprised of the 4th year students of the departments of Classroom Teaching, Teaching Social Sciences, Pre-School Teaching and Turkish Language Teaching Departments of Giresun Education Faculty, their perception of the cultural features of efficiency, belonging and communication/relationship was determined with the "Scale to Perceive School Culture", which is developed by the researcher. No samples were taken in the research but the research was carried out on all 4th grade students. The study group of the research comprised 408 students. Research model was surveying model. Data was analysed through arithmetic means and the relationship analyses were made through t-test, Krus-kal- Wallis Test and Mann-Whitney-U Test. Data analysis was carried out through taking the opinion of 199 students. The results of the research revelaed that students had a high/positive perception of the cultural feature of belonging. They had an average level of positive perception of the cultural features of efficiency and communication/relationship. Although there were no significant differences at the level of p<05 between genders, there were significant differences between departments. These findings show that academic organization, in which the research was carried out, may produce common meanings for the students.