ERIC Number: EJ1232271
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-1925-0746
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Attitudes of Physical Education and Classroom Teacher Candidates towards Teaching Profession in Turkey
Yildiz, Mehtap; Gülle, Mahmut
World Journal of Education, v9 n5 p63-69 2019
It is important to determine the attitudes of physical education teacher candidates who will carry out physical education courses in secondary and high schools and classroom teacher candidates who will carry out physical education courses in primary schools. The purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes of physical education and classroom teacher candidates towards teaching profession. The research was evaluated with a general survey model. The research group consisted of totally 280 teacher candidates; 168 of them study at School of Physical Education and Sports in Physical Education and Sports Teaching Department, 122 of them study at the Faculty of Education Primary School Teaching Department in the 2017-2018 academic year Hatay Mustafa Kemal University in Turkey. As data collection tools Personal Information Form developed by the researchers and the "Attitude Scale Toward Teaching (ASTT)" developed by Erkus (2000) et al. were used. In the statistical analysis of the data, t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. In the result of the research, it was determined that the attitudes of physical education and classroom teacher candidates towards teaching profession were high, but it was found that physical education teacher candidates had higher attitudes than classroom teacher candidates.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, High School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Athletics
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education; High Schools; Elementary Education
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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