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The purpose of this study is to analyse the opinions of the preservice teachers, who have been studying and/or graduated from the Faculties of Education, about current educational policies, the perception of the teaching profession by the society and what kind of changes there can be in the system of education in the near future from different points of view. This is a qualitative study and it was designed in scanning model. Study group consists of 50 students from the Faculties of Education of Gazi University and Ankara University. 25 of these students have been continueing their educations in various departments of these faculties and 25 of them are grad students preparing for the KPSS exam. A semi structured interview form including questions about the participants’ general opinions about the questions of the study was used in data collection. The data were analysed in descriptive analysis and content analysis. As regards the findings received at the end of the study, 83% of the preservice teachers have indicated that current educational policies are inadequate and 54% of them have indicated that teaching profession isn’t respected by the society. 80% of the preservice teachers have also expressed a negative opinion about the possible changes in the system of education in the near future, whereas 16% of them have had positive opinions and 4% of them have been undecided about it.

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