GEDİK, Hatice Aksaray Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Sosyal Bilgiler Eğitimi A B D, Turkey , AKHAN, Nadire Emel Aksaray Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Sosyal Bilgiler Eğitimi A B D, Turkey , KILIÇOĞLU, Gökçe Gazi Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Sosyal Bilgiler Eğitimi A B D, Turkey

The Reflective Thinking Tendency of Social Studies Candidate Teachers

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The aim of this study was to determine the reflective thinking tendencies of prospective social studies teachers and to determine this tendency in terms of various variables. The “Reflective Thinking Tendency Scale (RTTS) for teachers and student teachers”, which was developed by Semerci (2007) to determine the reflective thinking tendencies of prospective social studies teachers; together with the “Personal Information Form”, developed by the researchers to obtain demographic information concerning students, were employed in this study. The sample in the study was formed of 3rd and 4th grade candidate teachers studying at social studies teaching departments of education faculties of some universities, chosen through the method of purposeful sampling in different regions of Turkey. The survey model was used in the present study and the data was analysed using SPSS software. The results of this research indicated the reflective thinking tendencies of candidate teachers were of the medium level. Further, it was determined that the reflective thinking tendencies of the participants showed no significant differences from variables such as: gender, the monthly income of the family and the type of high school, there were however differences in some of the sub-dimensions on the Reflective Thinking Tendency Scale.

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Reflective thinking , candidate teacher , reflective learning , reflective teacher

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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