International Association of Educators   |  ISSN: 1308-951X

Original article | International Journal of Research in Teacher Education 2012, Vol. 3(3) 12-25

Examination Of Turkish Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Classroom Management

Mehmet Kaan DEMİR

pp. 12 - 25   |  Manu. Number: ijrte.2012.006

Published online: September 01, 2012  |   Number of Views: 133  |  Number of Download: 651


Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes and beliefs of Turkish prospective teachers towards classroom management. The population of the study comprises of 679 students. 193 students from the Faculty of Education of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University comprised the working group of the study. According to the study findings, attitudes and beliefs of prospective teachers found to be ‘mid-level’ towards the ‘instructional management and behavior management’ dimensions of the inventory, ‘high level’ towards ‘people management’ dimension of the inventory and ‘mid-level’ towards ‘classroom management’ considering the whole inventory. Furthermore, study results revealed that cumulative attitude and belief scores of prospective teachers from the whole inventory do not exhibit any meaningful difference according to the ‘gender’ and ‘type of education’ variables. On the other hand, regarding the ‘department’ variable, foreign language prospective teachers’ attitudes and beliefs towards ‘people management’ dimension found to be meaningfully higher than classroom prospective teachers.

Keywords: Attitude, belief, classroom management, prospective teacher


How to Cite this Article?

APA 6th edition
DEMIR, M.K. (2012). Examination Of Turkish Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Classroom Management. International Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 3(3), 12-25.

Harvard
DEMIR, M. (2012). Examination Of Turkish Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Classroom Management. International Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 3(3), pp. 12-25.

Chicago 16th edition
DEMIR, Mehmet Kaan (2012). "Examination Of Turkish Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Classroom Management". International Journal of Research in Teacher Education 3 (3):12-25.