JOURNAL OF AWARENESS

How is the awareness of disability rights in faculty of health sciences’ students?

Hülya Yücel, Gülşah Zengin Yazıcı — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0300

It is important for health professionals to be aware of the social rights of people with disabilities in order to guide the provision of health services. Awareness of disability rights and studies to increase inclusion in our society are limited. This study was designed to assess the awareness of disability rights among undergraduate students in the Faculty of Health Sciences, who will become health professionals after graduation. The study included 347 individuals studying at Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences. The students’ awareness of disability rights was evaluated online using the 35-item Disability Rights Awareness Questionnaire prepared by the researchers using Google Forms. The relationships among the collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test at SPSS 25.0 program. Of the students who participated in the study, 317 (91.4%) were women and 30 (8.6%) were men. 126 (36.3%) of the participants stated that there was a disabled person in their close environment. 146 (42.1%) of the students participated in training for disabled people and 134 (38.6%) of the students participated in voluntary activities. Of the students who responded to the questionnaire, 208 (59.94%) answered positively to more than half of the quest relations measuring awareness. The level of awareness significantly from first year to the last year (p<0.05). The results of the research show that students have an awareness of disability rights, but this awareness eases in advanced classes. It is predicted that organizing academic education and social activities about disability rights and inclusive approaches among university students is predicted to contribute to increasing general awareness. In future studies it will be important to carry out similar studies in different universities with larger groups of participants in order to reveal the general situation of awareness of disability rights.

Perspective on artificial intelligence: A profile study on the attitudes of university students

Selay Giray Yakut, Hande Kandur Aslan, Gülcan Yılmaz Küsen — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0300

Yapay zekanın çok çeşitli endüstrilerde küresel büyümesi, gelecek nesiller üzerinde yaratacağı etkiyi hesaba katmayı gerektirmektedir. Ancak üniversite öğrencilerinin yapay zekaya ilişkin bakış açıları üzerine yapılan çalışmalar hala sınırlıdır. Türkiye'de yürütülen önceki çalışmalarda, benzer özelliklere sahip öğrencileri yapay zekaya yönelik tutumları açısından gruplandıran ve potansiyel öğrenci profillerini belirlemeye çalışan bir çalışmaya rastlanmamıştır. Mevcut çalışma, literatürdeki bu boşluğu doldurmayı amaçlamaktadır. Araştırmada kullanılan veriler, Marmara Üniversitesi'nde öğrenim gören 254 öğrenciden demografik özellikleri ve yapay zekâya ilişkin görüşlerini içeren bir anket aracılığıyla yüz yüze görüşülerek toplanmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında öncelikle frekans tabloları ve betimleyici istatistikler değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmada kullanılan değişkenlerin çoğu kategorik olup; öğrenciler arasındaki homojen alt grupların belirlenmesi amacıyla çok değişkenli analiz tekniklerinden İki Aşamalı Kümeleme Analizi uygulanmıştır. Log-olasılık uzaklığı ölçüsü kullanılarak gerçekleştirilen uygulama sonucunda küme sayısı 3 olarak belirlenmiş ve oluşan öğrenci kümelerinin profilleri: “Temkinli Yenilikçiler”, “Aktif Faydalanıcılar ve Endişeliler” ve “Pozitif ve İleri Görüşlü Kullanıcılar” olarak belirlenmiştir. Daha sonra, elde edilen öğrenci profilleri birbirlerine benzerlikleri ve farklılıkları açısından incelenmiştir. Bulgular, yapay zekanın eğitimden ayrı düşünülemeyeceğini (Öğrencilerin %83.9’u yapay zekadan destek almaktadır) ancak etik, güvenlik (Öğrencilerin %96’sı yapay zekanın kullanımını etik ve güvenilir bulmamaktadır) ve psikolojik etkilerinin (Öğrencilerin %63’ü yapay zekanın olası etkilerinden korkmaktadır) dikkatli bir şekilde ele alınması gerektiğini göstermektedir.

Example of An Archeo-Village from a sociological perspective: Example of Çanakkale Tevfikiye Village

Candan Kamış, Cumhur Aslan — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0300

This article draws attention to the relational dimension of the transformation of Tevfikiye village in Çanakkale province into an archaeo-village as a result of the activities organized within the scope of the 2018 Troy Year and aims to fill the gap in this subject by trying to make sense of the concept of archaeo-village with a sociological approach. It aims to move the analysis to a different field by explaining the concept of 'archaeo-village', which is limited to the field of archaeology, with a broader theoretical framework and associating it with Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of 'field' and 'habitus' in the sociological context. The findings of Carl Blegen, who proved that Troy was not a myth as described in Homer's epic "Iliad", but a settlement that actually existed, have been a source for understanding the archaeological history of Troy. Emphasizing the importance of the archaeological popularity of this region and the dynamics of social life, the text tries to understand the social change of Tevfikiye and the factors affecting this change, based on the historically strategic status of Tevfikiye Village as both an archaeological site and a museum and the contributions of this situation to the village. With these factors, the sources and presentations of the traditional production structures of the village and the change experienced with the Opet Project, which made a significant contribution to the commercialization of these structures, were explained more clearly.