Abstract:

It is very important that teacher candidates find themselves sufficient in a certain extent and to have a positive view to their profession before starting teachership. The aim of this study is to determine the teacher candidates' who have training on formation education to teach religion in formal education both attitudes to profession of teaching and sufficiency perceptions about their field information. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 200 Theology Faculty students participating in the pedagogical formation certificate programme in Amasya University. As a result, it has been seen that candidate teachers who take pedagogical formation education separately from undergraduate education are thinking of they may be live some problems about providing classroom management and applying teaching methods and techniques rather than having full knowledge of field. From the answers given to the open-ended questions, it can be said that the majority of the teacher candidates want the pedagogical formation education to be included in the undergraduate education and spread out to a longer process.

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