Abstract:

This research was conducted with the aim of determining the empathic skills of social knowledge teachers according to certain variables. In the study, the screening model was used. The universe of research is formed by teachers of Social Information who work in the districts of Erzurum, Aziziye, Palandöken and Yakutiye in the Education-Teaching year 2010-2011. The study used the Empathy Trend Scale (EEO) developed by Dökmen (1988) in order to study the empathic skills of social information teachers according to certain variables. The data obtained in the study was analyzed in SSPS using the arithmetic average (X), the Kruskal Wallis Test and the T-Test in accordance with the purposes. According to the findings, the empathy skill scores of the Teachers of Social Information are not different by gender, study status, vocational status, final completed field (based on teaching/professional), empathy related service training course participation variable

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