ERIC Number: EJ1133857
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Apr
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Candidate Teachers? Views on Implementation and Adoption of Democracy: Istanbul University Sample
Serin, Hüseyin
Journal of Education and Training Studies, v5 n4 p111-120 Apr 2017
The aim of this study is to determine the candidate teachers' views, who have pedagogical proficiency at Hasan Ali Yucel education faculty, on implementation of organizational democracy according to gender and education variable. 370 of the candidate teachers who have graduate degree and continue undergraduate study at Istanbul University voluntarily participated in the study. Seker's (2010) scale named as, "Adoption and Implementation of Organizational Democracy in Primary Schools according to Supervisors' and Teachers' Perceptions" was adapted and applied to candidate teachers. The five Likert scale includes three dimensions; Participation in the Decision, Subsidiarity and Decentralization. EFA, CFA and t tests were conducted on the data collected from the study. According to the findings of the study, it has been understood that there are no differences among candidate teachers' views on the implementation of organizational democracy scale, but there are meaningful differences among their views according to their educational level.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Student Characteristics, Elementary Education, Likert Scales, Participative Decision Making, Democratic Values, Administrative Organization, Student Surveys, Factor Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey (Istanbul)
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