Who are the future teachers in Turkey? Characteristics of entering student teachers

By Meral Aksu, Cennet Engin Demir, Aysegul Daloglu, Soner Yıldırım, Ercan Kiraz. 2010

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Abstract This exploratory study examines the background characteristics, socio-cultural values and pedagogical beliefs that entering student teachers bring with them into the faculties of education and explores their possible implications for teacher education in the Turkish context. The study comprised 18,226 first-year student teachers from 51 faculties of education who participated in the study by responding to a three-section questionnaire developed by the research team. Their responses indicate that students entering education faculties typically come from families of lower-middle socio-economic status living in urban areas, tend to possess more traditional than secular-rational values and have not yet formed clear pedagogical beliefs.

Subfields: Education, Philosophy

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Factors Influencing Teaching Choice in Turkey (2012, background): “Mothers mostly have a primary school-level certificate (e.g. Yamaner & Kartal, 2001), whereas fathers possess a range of educational qualifications (e.g. Aksu et al., 2010).”
Choosing Teaching as a Career: Motivations of Pre-service English Teachers in Turkey (2012, background): “…have been conducted to understand the profiles of Turkish pre-service teachers from specific teaching programs such as pre-school, elementary school, mathematics and biology teaching departments (see Kabadayı, 2008; Saban, 2003; Kılınç and Mahiroğlu, 2009; Aksu et al. 2010; Özsoy et al., 2010).”
Why choose teaching? An international review of empirical studies exploring student teachers’ career motivations and levels of commitment to teaching (2015, background): “(Aksu et al., 2010), the UK (Reid & Caudwell, 1997; See, 2004; Thornton et al.”
Motivations for choosing teaching as a career: a perspective of pre-service teachers from a Turkish context (2013, background): “…world including Turkey but not so much with respect to some teaching professions such as mathematics, English, biology, chemistry, pre-school, etc. (Aksu et al. 2010; Bulut 2009; Çapri and Çelikkaleli 2008; Çermik et al. 2010; Derman et al. 2008; Gürbüz and Sülün 2004; Işık et al. 2010;…”