DETERMINATION OF LIFE-LONG LEARNING BEHAVIOURS OF DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY NURSING DEPARTMENT SENIOR STUDENTS

Communities require people who “can develop themselves” and “have skills for life-long learning”. The main of our descriptive study is to assess the life-long learning behaviours of senior university students. It was carried out in 103 senior students of the Nursing Department of School of Health in Kütahya Dumlupınar University. As the data collection tools, the “Student Inroduction Form” and the “Scale for Learning Style Preferences” (SLSP) were used.The mean SLSP score of students was estimated as 220,06±27,32. This result indicates thatthe students have scores equivalent to medium level preparedness for the life long learningby Guglielmino’s classification. In conclusion, it is considered that in the university activitiesencoureging students to develop academical goals and regular physical exercisehabits will behelpful for lifelong learning,