Examining candidate social studies teachers’ attitudes towars contemporary world issues

Abstract

This study was carried out in order to determine candidate social studies teachers’ attitudes towards the contemporary world issues.In this study, a descriptive survey model was used to determine whether the attitudes and approaches of candidate social studies teachers to contemporary world issues differ according to various variables (gender, class, age and socioeconomic status of candidate teachers.The research group of the study constitutes the students of Dokuz Eylül University Social Sciences Teaching. The Personal Information Form and the Attitude Scale Intended For Contemporary World Issues will be used to collect the data. Personal Information Form: The personal information form contains items that examine the gender, class, age and socio-economic status of the students. Attitude Scale Intended For Contemporary World Issues: " Attitude Scale Intended For Contemporary World Issues " developed by Kılıçoşlu, Karakuş and Öztürk (2012) was used in order to collect data in the study. Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient ş = .92, KMO value of 0.936, Bartlett test value of ş2 = 4721.614, sd = 276, p <0.001 in the study of Kılıçoşlu, Karakuş and Öztürk (2012) shows that the reliability of the applied questionnaire is high (BüyükÜztürk, 2010). Studies on the analysis of the research are going on and the SPSS program will be used in the analysis of the research data and t-test, ANOVA, percent (%), frequency (f), arithmetic mean (X), standard deviation (SS) values İşwill be used in the analysis of the data. In this ongoing study, it is predicted that candidate social studies teachers who have to keep up with current events and problems of the epoch and update themselves in this direction will have higher awareness and attitudes towards Contemporary World Issues. It is also estimated that the attitudes of candidate teachers who are taking the course of Contemporary World Issues in the their fourth year will be significantly different in comparison to the low-classes.