Investigation of preschool teacher candidates’ attitudes towards learning and their entrepreneurship levels.

Abstract

Since learning to learn and entrepreneurship as lifelong learning competencies get importance, it is expected from teacher candidates to have positive attitudes towards learning and to be entrepreneur. Owing to this, it was aimed to investigate preschool teacher candidates’ attitudes towards learning and their entrepreneurship levels in terms of various variables in addition to determine the effect of their attitudes towards learning on their entrepreneurship levels. The research was carried out via participation of 170 teacher candidates having been educated at department of preschool education at Mersin University. “Atitude Scale towards Learning” developed by Kara (2010) to determine teacher candidates’ attitudes towards learning and “Entrepreneurship Scale for Undergraduate