The Relationship Between Preschool Teacher Candidates' Cognitive Flexibility Levels and Their Beliefs About Integrating Environmental Education into Early Childhood Education

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2024-10-2

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Uluışık, İclal

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In this study, it was aimed to reveal the relationship between pre-service early childhood teachers‟ beliefs about integrating environmental education into early childhood education and their cognitive flexibility levels. In addition to this goal, it also aimed to reveal how pre-service early childhood teachers‟ cognitive flexibility levels and their beliefs about integrating environmental education with early childhood education differed according to various variables. Data were collected from freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior pre-service teachers at a university through scales. Descriptive analysis, independent sample t-test, ANOVA test, and Pearson Correlation test were used to analyze the collected data. When the findings were examined, a statistically significant relationship was found between pre-service early childhood teachers‟ cognitive flexibility levels and their beliefs about integrating environmental education into preschool education. However, it was revealed that the cognitive flexibility levels of pre-service early childhood teachers did not differ significantly according to variables such as gender, grade level, taking environmental education courses, internship experience, and personal development training. Similarly, it was understood that the beliefs of integrating environmental education with early childhood education did not differ significantly according to these variables.

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Teacher Beliefs, Cognitive Flexibility, Pre-Service Teachers

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111451

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis