Abstract:

This study aims to determine the mentalities of the candidates oriented towards the scientific research, their views concerning the content of the lesson and their knowledge, skills and thoughts concerning this field's relationship with the teaching profession, in line with their views oriented towards the "Scientific Research Methods Course" which they have, in the undergraduate program. The research was conducted with 133 music teachers who were undergoing training in the final year of the faculty of educations of 4 different universities. From the research, findings - such as the music teacher candidates presented opinion in 'indecisive' intensity in the scale of the score interval of the survey, in these views; the candidates did not correlate the teaching profession with the scientific research processes and the academics and the researchers saw this scientific research business as a field of activity, and the undergraduate program courses that were given in line with this field, should be taken by the ones who wanted to be an academic rather than the ones who wanted to be a teacher, despite this, the candidates could write a scientific research as the result of their taking the course of the "Scientific Research Methods" and they believed in that the course would contribute to their personal development, however in its general sense, in the candidates, and a positive point of view could not be given on the relationship of the research method - the research methods have been scientific oriented.Also, a conclusion was reached that there was no differentiation in the findings of this study according to the gender.

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