Abstract:

To increase the innovative performance of a country, innovations in the educational process developing individual characteristics such as creative thinking skills, learning skills and transformative thinking skills should be considered (Dorczak, 2011: 42). Therefore, some studies investigating innovativeness professionally in educational field at the individual level are needed. So, it is important to determine professional innovativeness tendencies of preservice teachers in the education faculty primary education department who will be future teachers, carry out basic education and provide innovation. In this context, the aim of this study was to investigate professional innovativeness tendencies of pre-service teachers in the Education Faculty Primary Education Department. In this study, survey method was used. The sample of this study was 512 pre-service teachers who participated to this study voluntarily from elementary department in Dicle University Ziya Gökalp Faculty of Education. To collect the data of this study “Professional İnnovativeness Tendencies Scale” developed by the researchers was used. To analyze the data parametric tests were used. According to results of this study female pre-service teachers have more innovative tendencies than male preservice teachers in terms of professional. Social Studies pre-service teachers have more innovative tendencies points than Science, Mathematics and Elementary Teaching preservice teachers. Professional innovative tendencies increase partially in second grade, but it decrease in third and fourth grades. There is a significant difference between pre-service teachers who perceive their socio-economic level as middle and pre-service teachers perceiving their socio-economic level as low in favor of the pre-service teachers perceiving their socio-economic level as middle in terms of professional innovativeness tendencies.

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