Candidate Teachers’ Views on Implementation and Adoption of Democracy: Istanbul University Sample

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determinethe candidate teachers’ views, who have pedagogical proficiency atHasan Ali Yucel education faculty, on implementation of organizational democracy according to gender and education variable. 370 of the candidate teachers who have graduate degree and continue undergraduate study atİstanbul University voluntarily participated in the study. Şeker’s (2010) scale named as ‘’ Adoption and Implementation of Organizational Democracy in Primary Schools according to Supervisors’ and Teachers’ Perceptions’’ was adapted and applied to candidate teachers. The five likert scale includes three dimensions; Participation in the Decision, Subsidiarity and Decentralization. EFA, CFA and t tests were conducted on the data collected fromthe study. According to the findings ofthe study, it has been understood that there are no differences among candidate teachers’ views on the implementation of organizational democracy scale, but there are meaningful differences among their views according to their educational level.