标题：An analysis of the relationship between prospective teachers’ thinking styles and their attitudes to teaching profession according to various variables
期刊名称：International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
印刷版ISSN：1307-9298
出版年度：2017
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：357-370
语种：English
出版社：International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
其他摘要：This study aimed to analyze the relationship between primary school prospective teachers’thinking styles and their attitudes to teaching profession. The study group for the researchconsisted of fourth-grade Primary School of Elementary Education, Social Sciences Educationand Science Education students studying at Dumlupınar University Education Faculty in the fallterm of 2013-2014 academic year. The scale was applied to 222 students. Survey model wasused. In order to define the prospective teachers thinking styles, “Thinking Styles Inventory”’that was adapted into Turkish by Fer (2005) and “Teaching Profession Attitude Scale” that wasdeveloped by Çetin (2006) were used in this research. According to the results of this study,prospective teachers’ attitude to teaching profession has been found to be positive andwomen’s attitude to teaching profession is higher than men in all the dimensions. While themost preferred thinking styles are legislative, hierarchic and executive thinking styles, the leastpreferred thinking styles are oligarchic and conservative thinking styles. In addition, there is asignificant relationship between prospective teachers and total attitude point of prospectiveteachers to teaching profession.
