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This study was conducted to examine and determine if teacher candidates' assertiveness levels differ in terms of their moods, gender, age, department, family type, birth order and perceived communication level with their friends. The study sample consisted of 465 4 th year classroom teacher candidates attending Afyon Kocatepe University, Education Faculty in the 2017-2018 academic years. The data collection instruments of the study were the Personal Information Form designed to get information about the participant teacher candidates, the Voltan Acar Assertiveness Scale (Voltan Acar & Öğretmen, 2007) administered to assertiveness levels of the participant teacher candidates and the Facial Expressions Form (Thayer & Schiff, 1969) so as to specify the participant teacher candidates' moods. Considering the results of Kolmogorov-Smirnoff normality test, the data which displayed a normal range was analyzed with independent samples t-test and One Way Anova was used. For the groups that did not display a normal range, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H Test were used. To the study results, there was a meaningful difference between teacher candidates' assertiveness levels and their ages, departments, family types, communication styles and moods; no statistically significant difference was found between their assertiveness levels and their genders and birth orders.

Bu çalışma, müze gezisine katılan okul öncesi dönem çocuklarının müze kavramı ile ilgili görüşlerinin incelenmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu çalışma ile okul öncesi dönemde müze gezisinin etkin bir şekilde gerçekleştirilip, yaygınlaştırılmasına katkıda bulunulacağı düşünülmektedir. Çalışma kapsamında, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden durum çalışması kullanılmıştır. Çalışma grubunu, Afyonkarahisar ili Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğüne bağlı bir ilkokulun anasınıfına devam etmekte olan dördü kız yedisi erkek olmak üzere toplam on bir çocuk, bir anasınıfı öğretmeni ve üç anne oluşturmuştur. Çalışma kapsamında, müze gezisi öncesi, müze gezisi anında ve sonrasında uygulanan etkinliklerden oluşan bir müze gezisi planı oluşturulup, çalışma grubuna uygulanmıştır. Çalışmada veri toplama aracı olarak çocuklar, öğretmenler ve ebeveynlerle ile yapılan yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formları kullanılmıştır. Çalışmadan elde edilen veriler içerik analizi yapılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda, çocukların; müze gezisinde olumlu deneyimler edindikleri, mutlu, heyecanlı olduklarını ve geçmiş ile bugün arasında bağlantı kurabildikleri belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca annelerin; gezi sonrasında çocukların daha etkili öğrendiklerini, öğretmenlerin ise; müze gezilerinin çocuklara somut deneyimler kazandırdığı için öğrenme süreçlerine önemli katkılar sağladığını, çocukların geçmiş ile günümüz arasında bağlantı kurabildiklerini ve sosyal yaşantılarının olumlu yönde desteklediğini belirttikleri ortaya konmuştur.

Early childhood education for sustainable development roots on environmental, socio-cultural and economic ground for encouraging lifelong learning and improving values and behaviors that support sustainable development such as use of natural resources, cultural awareness, gender equality, and democracy. Educational drama contributes to the development of skills necessary for sustainable development such as communication, cooperation and decision-making. This study has two main objectives: the former is to raise awareness and to develop these skills of pre-service teachers by organizing drama activities in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD); the later objective is to implement and to evaluate the activities based on the data collected from pre-service teachers and from one specific pre-school teacher, in whose classroom these activities were carried out. Phenomenographic approach was adapted for the current study and the data was collected through interviews, photos, and field notes. The study shows that the drama activities increase awareness and improve skills for ESD within pre-service teachers. Furthermore, opinions and experiences of the pre-service teachers and the preschool teacher state that drama has positive impact on learning of pre-school children about sustainable development.

This study aims to evaluate the behavioral engagement levels of elementary school students in Turkey and to determine the factors affecting the behavioral engagement levels of students in line with the views of elementary school teachers. Participants of the quantitative stage are selected by the random sampling method, from 50 students each from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades and 200 in total that attend to an elementary school in Turkey's inner Aegean region directed by the Ministry of Education. The participants of the study concerning the qualitative stage were 10 elementary school teachers. It was determined that elementary school students have a medium behavioral engagement level, and the gender variable is effective on engagement levels. It has been determined that elementary school teachers have awareness about engagement indicators and teachers think that the interaction they establish with students and the methods they use in the lessons affect the engagement.

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