A Study on Primary Classroom and Social Studies Teachers' Perceptions of Moral Education and Their Development and Learning

Autor/inn/en	Temli, Yeliz; Sen, Derya; Akar, Hanife
Titel	A Study on Primary Classroom and Social Studies Teachers' Perceptions of Moral Education and Their Development and Learning
Quelle	In: Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 11 (2011) 4, S.2061-2067 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1303-0485
Schlagwörter	Ethical Instruction; Credentials; Research Design; Statistical Data; Foreign Countries; Moral Values; Social Studies; Teaching Methods; Teacher Attitudes; Preservice Teacher Education; Inservice Teacher Education; Questionnaires; Elementary School Teachers; Interpersonal Relationship; Family School Relationship; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Studienbuch; Forschungsdesign; Ausland; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Gemeinschaftskunde; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerverhalten; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerfortbildung; Fragebogen; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Türkei
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of moral education, to what extent teacher education, both pre-service and in-service, prepared teachers to deal with morality and moral education in their professional classrooms through a cross-sectional survey research design. The data were collected through a questionnaire that included items on demographic background information and open-ended items that aimed at exploring the teachers' perceptions on the matter. The participants were a representative number of primary classroom teachers and teachers with different social credentials (N= 824) in 15 provinces of Turkey where high increasing population rates were observed based on national statistical data retrieved from the Turkish Statistical Institute. Findings showed that most teachers regarded moral education as essential and wanted to deal with it in their classes, yet they complaint that both in-service and pre-service preparation had given minimum pedagogical emphasis on this matter. Teachers thought that helping students acquire global values and leaving personnel moral dispositions out of the class were important assets during formal education, whereas they urged a need on how to teach those values. Cooperation among schools, family, media, and people with whom learners were in a close relationship were found essential in the implementation of moral education. (Contains 3 tables and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10