Özet:

Nowadays, individuals, companies and cultures from different parts of the world are interacting with each other very often. Thus,  individuals should be aware of different cultures, languagaes, and people to be able to live in this multicultural world. Turkey has different ethnic, language, and cultural differences within its own borders. Since Turkey gets many immigrants and tourists from different cultures and has various cultural differences within its borders, determining cultural intellegence of Turkish people, especially the teacher candidates expected to shape our future, will be significant. This study aims to examine and explore the cultural intellengence level of teacher candidates in a descriptive manner. It also tries to show whether the cultural intellegence level is associated with the socio-demographics of the participants such as parent’s education, gender, the department they enrolled, and the hometown region. Participants of the study were 450 teacher candidates enrolled in the teacher education program at a university in Turkey on 2014-2015 academic years. Regarding the cultural intellinge scores, this study determined some differences among teacher candidates based on their gender and department they study. Also, this study identified some significant relationships between socio-demographics of candidates and cultural intelligence scores.

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