Examining the Entrepreneurship Levels of Teacher Candidates

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the entrepreneurship levels of teacher candidates and to examine them according to various variables. The general survey model was used in the research. The population of the research consists of the teacher candidates who study at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Education and Sports Sciences throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. In order to determine the entrepreneurship level of teacher candidates, a thirty-eight item scale was used in the data collection process. For analyzing the data frequency, percentage, Mann Whitney-U test and Kruskal Wallis test were used. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the scale obtained with this research is .93. As a result of this research, it has been concluded from the scores of the teacher candidates that: the level of entrepreneurship is high; the dimension of seeing opportunities from the entrepreneurship dimensions has the highest score; men have a higher tendency to take risks from entrepreneurial dimensions than women; women have higher levels of self-confidence, innovation, seeing opportunities and emotional intelligence than men; and in dimensions of self-confidence and being innovative, special education, primary school and physical education teacher candidates, have respectively higher tendencies than other departments. 4th graders, 42 students are (13.9%) from 2nd grade 19 students (6.3%) are from 1st grade, 98 of the participants (32.5%) have an income between 0-500 TL, 90 (29.8%) of the participants have an income between 501-1000 TL, 66 (21.9%) of the participants have an income between 2001 and above, 27 (8.9%) of the participants have an income between 1001 -1500TL, 21 (7%) of them have an income between 1501-2000TL. This shows that the participants have either low income or high income. When we analyse the educational status of their mothers, 175 (57.9%) of the teacher candidates’ mothers are primary school graduates, 28 (9.3%) are secondary school graduates, 64 (21.2%) are high school graduates, 35 (11.6%) are university and master’s degree graduates. Regarding the educational status of their fathers, 118 (39.1%) of the teacher candidates’ fathers are primary school graduates, 46 (15.2%) are secondary school graduates, 78 (25.8%) are high school graduates, 60 (19.9%) are undergraduates and post-graduates.