A Qualitative Study for Improving the Quality of Teacher Education

dc.creator	İbrahim Yaşar Kazu
dc.creator	Mehmet Eroğlu
dc.date	2013-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:16:08Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:16:08Z
dc.identifier	1309-2707
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c819f8d4c1ec44c192c1973b2f6a5f81
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18228
dc.description	The purpose of this study is to determine the suggestions of teacher candidates for the improvement of Teaching Profession Courses (TPC). The study, in which qualitative research method was used, was prepared with phenomenologic method. The study group consists of 190 fourth grade students from Faculty of Technical Education and Faculty of Education of Fırat University in 2010-2011 academic year. The research data were collected through interview forms and content analysis was conducted by using Nvivo8 program. Depending on the findings, the suggestions of teacher candidates for the improvement of TPC was grouped under 11 main themes; course resources, processing of the course, importance of the course, physical media, content, functionality, Public Personnel Selection Examination, materials, instructor, measurement and evaluation, and applications. It was determined that the suggestions of teacher candidates mainly focused on the themes of processing of the course and the instructor. They frequently expressed that lectures should be processed with the adoption of modern approaches such as being student-centered and include visual and different techniques and the instructors should have effective teacher traits. Depending on the findings, some recommendations were developed.© 2013 IOJES. All rights reserved
dc.language	Turkish
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IOJES
dc.relation	http://www.iojes.net//userfiles/Article/IOJES_923.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1309-2707
dc.source	International Online Journal of Educational Sciences , Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 489-505 (2013)
dc.subject	Teacher candidate
dc.subject	teaching profession knowledge
dc.subject	teacher education
dc.subject	teaching staff
dc.subject	qualitative research
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	A Qualitative Study for Improving the Quality of Teacher Education
dc.type	article