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Banu Gürer, University of Marmara, TurkeyElif Kaya, Religious Affairs Presidency of Turkey, Turkey
Abstract
It is possible to say that religion has an important place among the resources used in making sense of disability, which includes difficulties due to individual and social factors, and in coping with the process. Accordingly, it seems that religion and religious education are a support area for disabled individuals and their families in making sense of disability and coping with the problems caused by disability. This function of religion and religious education requires providing religious education opportunities for disabled individuals and their families, and shaping these opportunities according to the needs of these individuals. In this regard, the aim of the research is to contribute to the development of the quality of religious education activities for disabled individuals and to identify the problems and expectations of families of disabled individuals regarding religious education in the context of their individuals and their children, in order to provide data, and to understand to what extent Quran courses can respond to these problems and expectations. Therefore, these problems and expectations were tried to be understood in the context of the families of disabled individuals who benefit from the informal religious education services provided for disabled individuals, and it was aimed to make suggestions in the light of the evaluations regarding the services in question. The research was structured with a phenomenological pattern. Interview technique consisting of semi-structured questions was used to obtain data. 30 parents, selected by snowball sampling from among the families of students attending Quran courses in Istanbul, participated.
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