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The quality of communication between a teacher and a student is one of the major factors that affects the efficiency of teaching-learning activities. In this research, the perceptions of student-teachers and their instructors at Marmara University, Atatürk Faculty of Education, have been comparatively investigated in terms of ideal/actual faculty- teacher and student. The sample consisted of 312 student-teachers and 33 faculty- teachers. The research was theoretically based on Transactional Analysis, a theory that explains human behavior and communication with three ego states as Child, Adult and Parent. The data from the faculty-teachers and student- teachers were collected by The Ego State Inventory developed by Arı (1989) and included perceptions toward each other, ideal /actual faculty-teacher and student. The major findings were as follows: The perceptions of student / faculty- teachers showed similarities regarding ideal faculty- teacher and student. Faculty teacher perceived actual students higher in Child ego state whereas student-teachers perceived actual faculty- teacher higher in Parent ego state. Findings were discussed in relation to Transactional Analysis and their educational consequences.

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