Özet:

The study aimed at determining the attitudes of pre-school teachers towards family participation work, the characteristics of family participation work they performed (content and location frequency). The participants of this study, which is conducted using the mixed research method, consist of 35 pre-school teachers who are working in the independent primary schools located in different areas in the socio-economic and socio-cultural aspects associated with MEB in the 2016-2017 educational year. In the study as a quantitative data collection tool, the Attitude Scale for Teachers to Family Participation Studies, developed by Bayraktar, Trust and Fundament (2016) has also been used as a qualitative data collection tool as a conversation form developed by researchers. Quantitative data of the study were analyzed through the SPSS 24 program with one-way variance analysis and non-related (independent) samples with t-test. The demographic features obtained from the Demographic Information Survey are presented in percentages. It is used for content analysis for quality data analysis. These findings have been used by cognitive maps that provide a visual presentation to better understand the complex structure of family participation studies. According to the results obtained from the quantitative data of the study, the attitudes of pre-school teachers towards family participation studies have found that gender, age, year of profession, type of school graduated, any form of education to the family participation studies are not effective. According to the quality results of the study, they are aware of the importance of family participation studies but do not provide sufficient place in their practices.