Öğretmen Adaylarının Ahlaki Gelişim Şema Kullanım Düzeylerinin İncelenmesi

Morality is one of the most important factors that shape communities, cultures and therefore youth in the socialization process. Therefore, to understand the moral development in pre-service teachers is critical for a developing country such as Turkey. The aim of this study is to evaluate the moral judgment of the preservice teachers’ in terms of various variables by examining the cognitive structures that interpret moral schemas. A total of 114 preservice teachers studying at various grade levels of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, determined randomly in the study, constituted the sample of this study. In the study, "The Defining Issues Test (DIT)" developed by Rest [28] and translated into Turkish by Cesur [29] was used. DIT is based on Moral Reasoning Theory of Kohlberg. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to test the data for the purpose of the study. In addition, independent groups t test and ANOVA were used to determine whether there was a difference between variables. The level of significance in statistical analysis has been adopted as .05. According to the results obtained from our study, while the most used level was PI and MN scheme, the least used one was P scheme. Also, it was concluded that there was no significant difference between the levels of using PI, MN and P moral development schemes and the demographic variables (age, gender, parental education levels). These findings showed that there is a need to attach more importance to moral education in physical education teacher education.