EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS' READING HABITS IN THE PROCESS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION (KASTAMONU EXAMPLE)

Abstract

The Covid 19 pandemic entered the country's agenda on March 11, 2020, and affected the 2nd semester of the 2019-2020 and the 2020-2021 academic years. The pandemic period, which can be considered very important and lengthy in education life, has taken its place as a distance education process in the history of education. This study aimed to examine the reading habits of teachers in the distance education process. The study group consists of 307 teachers teaching in pre-schools, primary schools, secondary schools and high schools in 2022-2023 academic year in Kastamonu. The data were collected via the Google form. In the research, all the factors that can affect the reading habits of the teachers in the distance education process, especially gender, seniority, educational institutions, branches, and settlements where they work, were examined. There are 16 items in the questionnaire form. In the data analysis, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) ; frequency, mean, Cross Table, Chi-Square were used. The results indicated that female and low seniority teachers spend more time for reading. Furthermore, results were interpreted in the light of previous findings.

Keywords

• Distance education
• teachers
• reading books

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