Values Education Preferences of Teacher Candidates

Values education is an open initiative in values development or actualization. Teachers are a natural part of this process. They strive to develop values in their students by expressing certain values within the pedagogical content and interpreting the educational program. They may play a variety of roles during values education. The characteristics of the adopted values education approach are important to determine the roles of teachers and students. The study reported in this book aimed to identify the approaches, methods and techniques preferred by 4th year pre-service teachers of Classroom Teaching from three state-run universities in Ankara, Turkey while they were designing values education activities, more specifically, activities to teach the value of being open minded. Following this, the methods, techniques and/or approaches used by these pre-service teachers were analyzed descriptively. Their preferences were found to be somewhat associated with the values education approaches known as "values clarification" and "inculcation".