ÖĞRENCİ, SOSYAL BİLGİLER ÖĞRETMEN ADAYI ve ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN DEĞER HİYERARŞİSİ

Abstract

Social studies course has an important mission to teach values. Within the scope of this course, 20 fundamental values such as responsibility, respect, tolerance, family bond and susceptibility for cultural heritage were determined for students to gain. Considering the assumption that some of these values may be more important than others for individuals, in this study, it was aimed to determine the value hierarchies of students, preservice and inservice social studies teachers. Therefore, participants were asked to put values which are included Social Studies Education Curriculum into order based on their importance level and to state the first three values. In this study, case study method as a qualitative research method was conducted. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and the data were analyzed by using document analysis method. The data were collected from three cities of Turkey and inservice social studies teachers, students and preservice social studies teachers were participated. Results of this study revealed that, all participants stated respect, honesty, and patriotism as the most important three values for them. Honesty is the common value for all three groups and students’ and preservice teachers’ responses were more similar. On the other hand, teachers reported more importance to love, tolerance, and family bond values.