Özet:

This research aims at determining social studies pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards human rights education on different variables. In the research conducted with the survey model, “Children’s Rights Attitude Scale” developed by Karaman - Kepenekçi (2006) was used. The universe of the study consists of pre-service teachers who attended the social studies teaching programs and the research sample consists of 451 pre-service teachers attending the 4th year of social studies teaching programs at faculties of education of 10 different universities (Tokat, Gazi, Karadeniz Technical, Yüzüncü Yıl, Erciyes, Kars, Adıyaman, Uşak, Kilis and Ankara Universities) during 2011-2012 academic year. The relationship of demographic characteristics to children’s rights was investigated through regression analysis. As a result of the regression analysis, only mother’s education level was found to be in reverse relationship with attitudes associated with children’s rights. However, it was observed that age, gender, income level, father’s education level, neighborhood, and taking classes do not predict the dependent variable statistically significantly.

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