Abstract:

The aim of this study is to elicit prospective teachers’ perceptions about the importance of History of Turkish Education course. This study was carried out case study method that is one of the qualitative research methods. The participants of the study were 77 prospective teachers, determined by using purposeful sampling strategy. There were two different data collection tools of the study: Structured interview and open-ended question form. Structured interview was used to take prospective teachers’ opinions about the identification of the course and the importance of the course in the curriculum and course’s subjects. Open-ended question form was used to take prospective teachers’ opinions about which subject is important for them within the content of the course and why it is important. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive and content analysis. The results showed that History of Turkish Education is an important course for prospective teachers. Besides prospective teachers found scientists/thinkers category as the most important, and they found the different dimensions of teacher training system as the second. 

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