Investigation the Relationship between High School Students the Value Preferences and Attitudes towards Teaching Profession

Year 2018, Volume: 10 , 150 - 155, 12.09.2018

Fatma Alkan Aysem Seda Yucel

Abstract

Values have a motivating structure
that leads people to do a job. Values, in fact, represent people's goals and
goals while revealing the gaze of life on the one hand. It is a job that is
expected to have values such as social status, self-esteem, success,
self-direction and others, besides knowledge of teaching profession, knowledge
of field education and general culture. They must be aware of their cognitive,
psychological and social characteristics in order to be aware of their values
and, depending on them, shape their lives. For this reason, students should be
aware of what values they have and should be encouraged to develop positive
attitudes about the teaching profession by recognizing themselves. The aim of
the research, they have the value of students studying in schools in Turkey
constitute the discovery of the relationship between attitudes towards the
teaching profession. The data of the study were collected using the Schwartz
value preferences scale and profession of teaching attitude scale. Relational
survey model was used in the study. As a result of the research, it was
determined that male students' attitudes towards the teaching profession were
higher than female students and it was determined that female students
significantly differed in terms of success, hedonism, stimulation,
self-direction, universality, benevolence and harmony dimensions from male students. It has also been
determined that there is a negative, meaningful, and weak relationship between value preferences and attitudes towards
teaching profession.  

Keywords

Schwartz value, Teaching profession, High school students

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