Abstract:

It has been researched to determine in which levels the teacher candidates prefer punishment methods in order to secure the in-class discipline. The survey method which is one of the quantitative researches has been chosen for this study, and it has been applied to 163 students from various departments including the Computer Teaching and Technologies, Foreign Languages, Elementary Science Education and Primary Education at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University during the academic year 2010-2011. The study has reached, under the varieties of gender, education type and department, a conclusion that the teacher candidates prefer to choose psychological and physical punishment methods rather than social ones. During a period when different/alternative class discipline methods are useable, the attitudes of teacher candidates towards punishment methods must be taken into agenda of the teacher education programs.

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