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The aim of this research is to find out the variables that may affect primary and secondary school teacher candidates’ intercultural sensitivity and ethnocentrism levels. The variables whose effects are examined on teacher candidates’ intercultural sensitivity and ethnocentrism levels are their departments at university, regions that they grew up, size of their hometowns, their going abroad experiences and having friends from different national or cultural backgrounds. The research model is descriptive. The study group consists of 314 volunteer teacher candidates who attended a private course to be prepared for Public Personnel Selection Examination (aka. KPSS) during 2014-2015 academic year. Intercultural sensitivity level of teacher candidates was measured byintercultural sensitivity scale developed by Chen and Starosta (2000) and theirethnocentrism level was measured by Ethnocentrism Scale developed by Neuliepand McCroskey (1997).Linguistic equivalence, validity and reliability studies of twoscales were done by Ustun (2011). Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), one way analysis of variance (ANOVA), independent samples T test and two nonparametric tests, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H, were used to analyze the data. Findings of the research revealed statistically significant difference between teacher candidates’ intercultural sensitivity levels in terms of their departments at university, size of their hometowns, their going abroad experiences inappropriate word. Their experiences in abroad and having friends from different national or cultural backgrounds. Findings also showed statistically significant difference between teacher candidates’ ethnocentrism levels in terms of their departments at university, size of their hometowns, their going abroad experiences.

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