Today’s education programs constantly emphasize goals
such as optimizing students’ cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills, and
aim to prepare them for life. In this sense, student-centered activities and
active participation are of great importance. Drama is one of the most
effective ways to encourage students’ active participation. “Drama is the art
of portraying and making sense of an experience, event, idea or even sometimes
an abstract notion or behavior by making use of drama techniques like
improvisation, acting etc. This process also occurs through reorganizing
cognitive patterns in the past, and through “play-like” processes in which
previous experiences and life events are revised”. The current study aims to
reveal the self-efficacy levels and perceptions of prospective fourth grade
Turkish language and classroom teachers having taken drama courses and studied
at the Primary School and Turkish Teaching Departments of Ahi Evran University.
The study also examined whether the self-efficacy levels of students from these
departments differentiate in terms of departmental focus and gender. The study
is descriptive, meaning that it aims to
reveal the current situation in total and makes use of a screening model. The
data of the study was gathered using a five-point Likert scale including 46
questions. During the data analysis processes, the researcher made use of
frequency, percent, arithmetic average, standard deviation and t-tests. The
level of significance of the comparisons was .05. The study findings suggest
that the drama related perceptions and self efficacy skills of prospective
teachers were moderate. Additionally, among the participant teachers there was
found to be no significant correlation between teachers' scores and their
gender, departments, perceptions, self-efficacy levels and drama courses they
currently take.
Drama method prospective classroom teacher prospective Turkish teacher perception self efficacy
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Article |
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Publication Date | June 28, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 |