Analyzing the Cognitive Teaching Styles of Preservice and Cooperating Preschool Teachers in Turkey

Autor/in	Kabadayi, Abdulkadir
Titel	Analyzing the Cognitive Teaching Styles of Preservice and Cooperating Preschool Teachers in Turkey
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 177 (2007) 3, S.275-293 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Teachers; Teaching Styles; Cooperating Teachers; Child Development; Cognitive Style; Student Teachers; Teacher Characteristics; Student Teaching; Correlation; Teaching Methods; Personality Traits; Extraversion Introversion; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Lehrstil; Unterrichtsstil; Co-operation; Cooperation; Teacher; Teachers; Kooperation; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Kindesentwicklung; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Korrelation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Türkei
Abstract	It is evident that all teachers have individual attributes relating to their teaching processes and they teach differently at different paces because of their biological and psychological differences. Naturally, mismatches often occur between the teaching styles of student-teachers in preschool and the teaching style of the cooperating teachers, with unfortunate effects on the quality of the student-teachers' teaching and on their attitudes toward the class and the subject. The aim of the descriptive study was to investigate the relationship between student-teachers' and cooperating teachers' cognitive styles and their instructional preferences. The sample (n = 375) included 232 preschool student-teachers majoring in child development and education at Selcuk University, and 143 cooperating preschool teachers who currently teach in different preschools in Turkey. Subjects' cognitive teaching styles were assessed using the Instant Insight Inventory. In general, the chi-square results showed that there was a significant difference between the student-teachers' and cooperating preschool teachers' cognitive teaching style dimensions (P = 173.395, less than 0.05). In general, the data also indicate that there was a significant difference between student-teachers and cooperating teachers in manipulating instructional techniques/activities in respect of four teaching temperaments (P = 47.795, less than 0.05). As a consequence of the data obtained, some suggestions were made to the cooperating preschool teachers to match their cognitive teaching styles to the styles of preschool student-teachers to foster the preschool students' various domains effectively. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10