Investigation the Relationship between High School Students the Value Preferences and Attitudes towards Teaching Profession

Abstract

Values have a motivating structure that leads people to do a job. Values, in fact, represent people's goals and goals while revealing the gaze of life on the one hand. It is a job that is expected to have values such as social status, self-esteem, success, self-direction and others, besides knowledge of teaching profession, knowledge of field education and general culture. They must be aware of their cognitive, psychological and social characteristics in order to be aware of their values and, depending on them, shape their lives. For this reason, students should be aware of what values they have and should be encouraged to develop positive attitudes about the teaching profession by recognizing themselves. The aim of the research, they have the value of students studying in schools in Turkey constitute the discovery of the relationship between attitudes towards the teaching profession. The data of the study were collected using the Schwartz value preferences scale and profession of teaching attitude scale. Relational survey model was used in the study. As a result of the research, it was determined that male students' attitudes towards the teaching profession were higher than female students and it was determined that female students significantly differed in terms of success, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, universality, benevolence and harmony dimensions from male students. It has also been determined that there is a negative, meaningful, and weak relationship between value preferences and attitudes towards teaching profession.