A Study of Verbal Section Teacher Candidates’ Attitute Towards Science, Science Education and Technology

Abstract

This study was conducted with 98 teacher candidates who were receiving education in the Gazi University verbal division teacher educating programs and who were selected from two groups, namely History Teaching and Bureau Management Teaching, in the 2003-2004 fall term. Our aim was to determine the attitudes of the verbal section teacher candidates, who form an important part of teachers that will be assigned to teach in society in the future, towards science, science education and technology, and clarify whether they have prejudices and knowledge deficiencies to present an understanding of how much importance they pay to science. The data collecting instrument used in the study consists of 45 items in the type of quintet Likert. The results showed that the participants of the study don’t have an adequate knowledge about the nature of science, its importance, what it brings in to individuals and society. Even though technology consciousness seems to have developed in groups, it is detected that its relation with science has not been fully understood.