The Relationship Between Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs Of Educational Philisophy and Their Democratic Attitudes

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine preservice teachers’ beliefs concerning philosophy of education and reveal the relationship between their educational beliefs and democratic attitudes. This study, which was designed according to the quantitative research method, is of a descriptive nature. The sample group of the study consists of a total of 263 students attending Necmettin Erbakan University Education Faculty. “Educational Beliefs Scale” developed by Yılmaz, Altınkurt, Çokluk (2011) and “Democratic Attitude Scale” developed by Gözütok (1995) were used to collect the research data. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U and Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient were used to analyze the data. According to the research findings, the preservice teachers adopted the existentialist and progressivist education philosophies most and it was found that their education philosophies exhibited variation on the basis of gender and the teaching program. Significant relationships were found between preservice teachers’ education philosophies and their democratic attitudes.

Keywords

• eğitim felsefesi i̇nançları
• demokratik tutum
• öğretmen adayları