Abstract:

The current study aims to investigate the attitudes of sports sciences faculty students towards becoming a physical education and sports teacher. The study group of the current research employing the survey model is comprised of students having graduated from the faculty of sports sciences and the senior students of the faculty of sports sciences enrolled in the pedagogical formation program given in the Education Faculty of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University in the spring term of 2017-2018 academic year. A total of 126 pre-service teachers participated in the study on a volunteer basis. Of the participating students, 45 (35.7%) are females and 81 (64.3%) are males. In order to determine the between-groups differences, t-test and “variance analysis” were used. The findings of the current study revealed that the pre-service teachers’ love for and anxiety about the profession of teaching do not vary significantly depending on gender, department (sports administration, coaching, physical education and sports teaching) and mother and father’s doing or not doing sport. It was found that the love of the pre-service teachers having professional experience before for the profession of teaching is stronger than those not having professional experience. Moreover, if the pre-service teachers were once more given the opportunity to select their field of study, the ones having stronger love for the profession would once more prefer the same field of study. A positive and low correlation was found between the students’ love for the profession and anxiety about the profession

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