Socioeconomic Profile of Early Childhood Education Preservice Teachers

Abstract

Purpose: Teachers are key determiners of quality education, and regarding young children in particular, the quality of teachers can have a remarkable influence on the quality of education. However, research on the socioeconomic profile of preservice teachers at university remains rare in Turkey, especially eastern Turkey, where living conditions are below of the national average. In our study, the socioeconomic profile of 2,115 early childhood teacher candidates in faculties of education at state universities in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolian Regions of Turkey was examined. The study aimed to determine the rank order of students' preferred early childhood education bachelor programs and the reasons for their preferences.

Assessment of the Educational Needs of Preschool Teacher Candidates as regards Teaching Practice

“…In this context, meeting the training needs of pre-service teachers for these skills is seen as a necessity in terms of their success and that of their students in their professional lives. Teachers, who are the main determinants of education, have a significant impact on a quality education (Unal & Kurt, 2018). Especially preschool teachers and teacher candidates should know children well and have the ability to gather information about children.…”

Socio-Affective Word Production by Early Childhood Educators: Lexical Densities, Clusters, and Predictors

“…23, e21 3 emotional competencies (Fernández et al, 2019) and/or by theoretical preferences in explaining toddler behavior (Mischo et al, 2012). Other studies have identified educators' professional competencies based on the country's educational policies (Oberhuemer, 2015), socio-demographic variables (Unal & Kurt, 2018), characteristics relating to their professional identity (Doğan & Erdiller, 2016) and/or variables of a psychological nature such as the degree of emotional support provided to children (Treviño et al, 2013), attitudes toward early learning (Jeon et al, 2015), and personality traits (Tatalović et al, 2018).…”