A Research Based on Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of the Concept of Justice

This research aimed to determine the opinions of the sixth-grade students about the concept of justice within the framework of value education and to examine how it is reflected in their artistic works with a semiotic approach. The study is a qualitative research designed with an artbased research method and adopts a semiotic analysis approach. The study group was formedfrom sixth-grade students studying in a medium-sized secondary school in the Eastern Anatolia Region in the 2022–2023 academic year. In the research, the data obtained from the semi-structured interview form were analyzed with descriptive analysis, which is one of the qualitative data analysis methods. The artistic works of the sixth-grade students on the concept of justice were analyzed by semiotic analysis. They offered views such as women’s rights. On the other hand, it was observed that the students used mostly scales and images expressing equality to express justice in their paintings. It was observed that the views of secondary school students about the concept of justice and the artistic products they produced overlapped.