An Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers’ Lifelong Learning Tendencies and Their Individual Innovativeness Levels

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine of and lifelong learning tendencies and individual innovativeness levels. The study was designed as a descriptive research and employed relational model. The participants of this study were 819 pre-service teachers attending a teacher training program at a public university at the western part of Turkey during the academic year of 2017-2018. The data of the study were collected using: “Lifelong Learning Scale” and “Individual Innovativeness Scale”. The data obtained were examined using descriptive statistics. In addition, in order to determine the correlation between pre-service teachers’ scores in the scale of lifelong learning and their scores in the idividual innovativeness scale the Sperman Brown rank order correlation analysis was employed. The findings showed that pre-service teachers had a lifelong learning tendencies was high however their individual innovativeness levels was low. At the same time, there is a meaningless between the pre-service teachers’ lifelong learning tendencies and their individual innovativeness levels. For all that sub-dimension scores indicates that there is a meaning relationship between the pre-service teachers’ lifelong learning tendencies and their individual innovativeness levels. Based on the findings obtained several suggestions were developed.

Keywords

• Bireysel yenilikçilik
• öğretmen adayları
• yaşam boyu öğrenme.