Prospective teachers' perceptions of teaching profession

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Published: Nov 14, 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i1.10
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Active Learning, Administration of Education, Adult Education, Affective Learning

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Ayse Ulku Kan

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Training well-qualified teachers gains importance in this rapidly changing word. Schools have to train individuals who can adopt the changes and act accordingly. Teachers have a major role to prepare the individuals for the future. The better the prospective teachers are trained, the better they will perform when they work as teachers.  In this sense, the opinions of prospective teachers toward teaching profession gains importance. This is a qualitative study in nature. The aim of this study is to explore perceptions of prospective teachers of teaching profession. Prospective teachers enrolled at the departments of Classroom Teaching, Fine Arts Teaching, Turkish Language Education, and Computer and Instructional Technologies were included in the study. Ten prospective teachers in each department were selected as the study group and they were interviewed. Those who were volunteer were included in the study. An interview form was used in the study. The interview form included three semi-structured questions. N-VIVO 8 program was used to analyze the data. Descriptive analysis was utilized to analyze the data.

  Keywords:  Active Learning, Administration of Education, Adult Education, Affective Learning

 

 

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Ulku Kan, A. (2015). Prospective teachers’ perceptions of teaching profession. Contemporary Educational Researches Journal, 5(1), 12–16. https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i1.10
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