@article{article_342207, title={The Perception of Public Education Centers’ Personnel Regarding Lifelong Learning Key Competencies}, journal={OPUS International Journal of Society Researches}, volume={7}, pages={726–741}, year={2017}, DOI={10.26466/opus.342207}, author={Akbaşlı, Sait and Durnalı, Mehmet}, keywords={Lifelong learning,lifelong learning competencies,public education centers,administrators,teachers,master trainers}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <i> <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:’Palatino Linotype’, serif;">The research mainly aims to
determine the perception regarding lifelong learning key competencies of
personnel working at public education centers. Furthermore, it aims to examine
whether this perception level of the sample reveals significant differences in
terms of gender, profession, age, and years of experience or not. The
cross-sectional survey implementation was designed for the research. The study
group consisted of 27 administrators (principals, chief deputy principals,
deputy principals), 28 teachers and 177 master trainers, a total of 232
participants from the public education centers (Halk Eğitim Merkezleri) in the
province of Sakarya city during fall semester of 2016-2017 academic year. ‘Key
competences for lifelong learning scale’ developed by Şahin, Akbaşlı and Yanpar
Yelken (2010) was used to collect the data. Regarding gender, there are not any
significant differences between female and male with respect to levels of the
dimensions. Considering profession, age, years of experience, there are statistically
significant differences between sub-groups with respect to a/some dimension(s).  </span> </i> </p> <p> <i> </i> </p> <i> </i> <p> </p>}, number={13}, publisher={İdeal Kent Yayınları}