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This study aims to determine whether teacher candidates' views on the problems of the education system overlap with new problems/cultural areas in the world. The research is a research designed in a qualitative pattern and the opinions of teacher candidates were analyzed in depth with a phenomenological approach. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers and analyzed by content analysis. Participants consist of 60 teacher candidates studying at a public university. Pre-service teachers' views showed that, the inability of education to fulfill its functions, having a structure that gives importance to memorization, equality in opportunity, quality of undergraduate education, value education, instability of the system, policies regarding the teacher, lack of resources, transfer of implementations of imported education systems, adult education, problems for education stakeholders areas are the problem areas of Turkish education system. Accordingly, it is seen that pre-service teachers are sensitive to the education problems discussed in the public, but because of their low awareness of the education problems that occur or are likely to occur worldwide they are unprepared towards this kind of problems. In this regard, it is important to provide training courses and academic research activities to pre-service teachers in line with global education problems and foreseen problems.

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