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The purpose of this research is to identify the influence of the Character and Values Education course on the attitudes of the teacher candidates towards the value education. In the study the quantum research approach was adopted and the method was used as a single group pre-test - the last test simple experimental pattern. The study group of the study in the 2018-2019 academic year, in the Sinop University Pedagogical Training Program, forms 50 candidates for teachers of Turkish language and literature who choose the Character and Values Education course as an optional course. The research has used the “Value Education Attitude Scale” developed by Çetin (2018) as a data collection tool. The scale applied to the work group before the experimental processes consists of 3 sub-dimensions and 31 items. All the data obtained from the study were analyzed in the SPSS 25 package program. Dependent variable t-test analysis has been used to determine whether the difference between the pre-test and final test points of the teacher candidates is meaningful. At the end of the study, which took 14 weeks of application, the Character and Values Training course has shown that teachers’ candidates have increased their attitudes towards the subdimensions of incorporating the belief and value education, which is the need for value education. In the negative beliefs to value education, which is another subdimensional of the scale, there has been no meaningful difference between the pre-test and final test points of the teacher candidates, as the teacher candidates have no negative beliefs to value education before the experimental processes, and after the experimental processes there has been no negative beliefs to value education in the teacher candidates.

Özet:

The purpose of this survey is to determine the impact of the course of Character and Value Education on the attitudes of prospective teachers about value education. The quantitative research approach has been adopted in this study and the pattern of single group preliminary test- final test was used as a method. The study group of this research study is formed by 50 Turkish language and literature prospective teachers who have selected the course of Character and Value Education as the elective course in the Pedagogical Formation Program of Sinop University in the fall semester of the academic year 2018-2019. "Attitude scale on value education" developed by Cetin (2018) has been used as a means of data collection in the survey. The scale which was used as a preliminary test prior to the experimental processes and as a final test thereafter on the study group consists of 3 sub-dimensions and 31 articles. All data obtained from the survey were analyzed in SPSS 25 package program. The dependent variable t-test was used to determine whether the difference between the preliminary and final test scores are meaningful.  At the end of the survey the applications of which lasted 14 weeks, it was observed that the course of Character and Value Education has increased the attitudes of the prospective teachers directed at the sub-dimensions of the belief in the necessity of value education and internalization of value education. On the other hand, in the dimension of the negative belief on the value education which is another sub-dimension of the scale it has been observed that there is no meaningful difference between the preliminary and final test scores of the prospective teachers, that the prospective teachers had no negative opinion about the value education prior to the experimental processes, nor such a negative opinion has emerged after the experimental processes. 

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