Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the attitudes of prospective teachers attending the teaching department in universities in North Cyprus according to various variables such as gender, age, department, class, place of residence of families and type of high school they graduated from. For this purpose, Attitude Scale Towards Creative Drama Course was applied to prospective teachers who took creative drama course in Preschool Teaching and Hearing Impaired Education programs of Near East University. Before and after creative drama education and attitude scores of prospective teachers were examined according to independent variables. At the end of the study, it was seen that the prospective  teachers' attitude scores towards creative drama differed significantly in favor of women before education but this difference disappeared after education. In addition, it was found that the attitude scores of the prospective teachers did not show a statistically significant difference according to the variables of age, department, class, place of residence of families, type of high school they graduated from.

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