TEACHER CANDIDATES' PERCEPTIONS OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Year 2012, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 81 - 95, 04.01.2013

Berna Kaya Aytaç Kaya

Abstract

Globalization, whose effects began to be felt at the end of the twentieth century, has led to social, economic, political and cultural changes in the world. These changes have affected individuals, companies and governments instantly. The change that led to the reconstruction of the world is called the process of globalization. Information technologies have played an important and accelerative role in extending the effects of globalization. For instance, thanks to the Internet, people who are more often in contact with each other have become more critical consumers than ever before. In the current study, the Scale of Global Citizenship in the Technology Age, which is developed by Clarisse Olivieri Lima (2006), has been adapted to Turkish by Kaya and Kaya (2011) and applied to five different departments in the Faculty of Education at Sakarya University: Social Sciences Education, Elementary Mathematics Education, Computer Education,  Turkish Education and Science Education. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the perceptions of teacher trainees at different departments about the Global Citizenship in the Technology Age and various variables.   The data collected were analyzed through SPSS 17. The results of the study indicate that the teacher trainees that know a foreign language have a higher perception of global citizenship than those who do not, and likewise that the teacher trainees who use the Internet more than once or every day have a higher perception that those who do not.

Keywords

Globalization, Education, Technology

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