标题：Pre-service elementary education teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning in Turkey Türkiye’de sınıf öğretmenliği öğretmen adaylarının öğretme ve öğrenme ile ilgili inançları
摘要：This study examines the Turkish elementary pre-service teachers’ beliefs about learning and teaching, their preferences concerning instructional practices, and the differences between elementary pre-service teachers in terms of beliefs about teaching, learning and instructional practices at different stages of teacher education programs. Two hundreds eighty nine pre-service teachers participated in the survey and 16 pre-service teachers participated in in-depth interviews.The study employs both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. The quantitative research methods employed two surveys and computed a series of descriptive, correlation, t-test, ANOVA and regression analyses to answer the research questions. The contrast comparative analysis method is conducted for qualitative data analysis to explore pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning. Results reveal that Turkish elementary education pre-service teachers have both traditional and constructivist beliefs about teaching and learning, but the majority of the participants has more constructivist tendencies in some points. The results of the current study also indicate that there are significant differences between the pre-service teachers due to gender, age, field experience, methods courses, and length of time in the program.
