مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Teaching Profession and Lifelong Learning: From the Perspective of Teacher Candidates

Abstract :

Curriculum, administrators, educationists, education technologies, physical facilities, financial sources, students and teachers constitute the education systems and the teachers are important ones. For this reason, in order to be able to work devotedly and attentively, it is mandatory that today’s teachers have positive attitude towards teaching profession and have high lifelong learning tendencies. In this study, the attitudes towards teaching profession and the lifelong learning tendencies of the teacher candidates attending to pedagogical formation certificate program were outlined according to various variables and whether there was any relationship between the attitudes towards teaching profession and the lifelong learning tendencies was investigated. It can be found that the teacher candidates had positive attitudes towards the teaching profession. Moreover, teacher candidates’ lifelong learning tendencies were said to be high. It can also be underlined that there was a positive medium-level relationship between the attitudes towards teaching profession and lifelong learning tendencies of the teacher candidates. Besides, the responses to how they saw the teaching profession were grouped under three themes and those to how they perceived lifelong learning under two themes.