Open AccessThe Relationship between Prospective Teachers’ Thinking Styles and Attitudes towards Teaching Profession
Author(s) -
Ceyhun Ozan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of curriculum and teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-2685
pISSN - 1927-2677
DOI - 10.5430/jct.v8n3p50
Subject(s) - style (visual arts) , cognitive style , psychology , legislature , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , law , cognition , literature , art , neuroscience
The aim of this study is to determine the prospective teachers' thinking styles, attitudes towards teaching professionand the relationship between thinking styles and attitudes towards teaching profession. Relational survey model wasused in the study. The universe of the study consists of the prospective teachers studying in the Faculty of Theology,Faculty of Theology and Pedagogical Formation Program of a state university in the fall semester of 2017-2018academic years. The sample of the study consisted of 1215 prospective teachers who were selected throughconvenience sampling method. According to the results of the study, prospective teachers preferred the mostlegislative, monarchic, executive, judicial, liberal thinking styles e.g. the hierarchic, conservative, oligarchic andanarchic thinking styles. Prospective teachers' attitudes towards teaching profession are positive. A significantpositive relationship was found between liberal, external, monarchic, executive, hierarchic, legislative, judicial andconservative thinking styles and attitudes towards teaching profession. On the other hand, a significant negativecorrelation was found between the oligarchic thinking style and the attitude towards teaching profession. Therelationship is moderate in liberal and external thinking styles and low in other thinking styles.