Cultural Intellegence Level of Turkish Teacher Candidates in Globalized World (Küreselleşen Dünyada Türk Öğretmen Adaylarının Kültürel Zekâ Seviyeleri)..... Doi: 10.14686/buefad.v4i2.5000131990

Abstract

Nowadays, individuals, companies and cultures from different parts of the world are interacting with each other very often. Thus,  individuals should be aware of different cultures, languagaes, and people to be able to live in this multicultural world. Turkey has different ethnic, language, and cultural differences within its own borders. Since Turkey gets many immigrants and tourists from different cultures and has various cultural differences within its borders, determining cultural intellegence of Turkish people, especially the teacher candidates expected to shape our future, will be significant. This study aims to examine and explore the cultural intellengence level of teacher candidates in a descriptive manner. It also tries to show whether the cultural intellegence level is associated with the socio-demographics of the participants such as parent’s education, gender, the department they enrolled, and the hometown region. Participants of the study were 450 teacher candidates enrolled in the teacher education program at a university in Turkey on 2014-2015 academic years. Regarding the cultural intellinge scores, this study determined some differences among teacher candidates based on their gender and department they study. Also, this study identified some significant relationships between socio-demographics of candidates and cultural intelligence scores.

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Küreselleşen Dünyada Türk Öğretmen Adaylarının Kültürel Zekâ Seviyeleri

Abstract

Bu çalışma, öğretmen adaylarının kültürel zeka seviyelerini betimsel olarak araştırma ve incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Ayrıca, katılımcıların kültürel zeka seviyesi ile anne-babalarının eğitimi, cinsiyet, üniversitede devam ettikleri bölüm ve memleketleri gibi sosyo-demografik geçmişleri arasında ilişki olup olmadığını göstermeye çalışacaktır. Katılımcılar, 2014-2015 akademik yılında Türkiye’deki bir üniversitenin eğitim fakültesine kayıtlı 450 öğretmen adayından oluşmaktadır. Veriler, 2007’de Ang ve arkadaşları tarafından geliştirilen ve 2014’te Ilhan ve Cetin tarafından Türkçe’ye uyarlanan ve psikometrik testleri yapılan Kültürel Zeka Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Toplanan veriler, öncelikle basit veri sunumu ve çizelge sunumu yapılarak değişkenlerin kodlaması ve analize hazır hale getirilmesi aşamalarının da dahil olduğu birkaç adımda incelenmiştir. Daha sonra katılımcıların kültürel zeka puanlarının ortalamaları sosyo-demografik geçmişlerine göre karşılaştırılmış ve korelasyon katsayısı metodu (Pearson’s r) kullanılarak sosyo-demografik ve kültürel zeka seviye değişkenlerinin iki yönlü analizleri sunulmuştur. Katılımcıların kültürel zeka puanlarının ortalamaları karşılaştırıldığında, bu çalışma öğretmen adaylarının cinsiyet ve okudukları bölüme göre aralarında bazı farklılıklar gösterdiklerini belirlemiştir. Ayrıca bu çalışma, Pearson korelasyon katsayılarına bakıldığında, öğretmen adaylarının kültürel zeka seviyeleri ile bazı sosyo-demografik geçmişleri arasında anlamlı bir ilişki tespit etmiştir.

Keywords

• Kültürel zekâ, kültür, öğretmen adayları, küreselleşme, eğitim

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