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The general purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy perceptions of classroom teachers and prospective teachers about the instruction of critical thinking. In accordance with this general purpose, the opinions of the participants regarding the efficacy perceptions about the instruction of critical thinking and the conceptualization of critical thinking were asked. Interview method was used during the process of data collection of the study performed with phenomenology design. 35 prospective classroom teachers who were determined according to the method of measure sampling, studying in fourth grade at the department of classroom teaching at Faculty of Education of Çukurova University and doing their jobs in central counties of the city Adana make up the working group of the study. Semi-structured interview forms that were prepared by the researchers were used for the collection of data, and the technique of content analysis was utilized for the analyze of the data. As a result of the analyze of the data, it was seen that the classroom teachers and prospective teachers explained critical thinking under the concepts of intellectual skepticism, interpreting and judging the data, multiple point of views and thinking independently which were all stated in the related body of literature. None the less, it was inferred from this that classroom teachers and the majority of prospective teachers perceived themselves efficient about the instruction of critical thinking.

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