Early childhood teachers’ beliefs towards participation rights of children

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2015

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Coşkun, Tuna

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The aim of this study to explore the beliefs of ECTs concerning children participation rights as stated in United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The data was collected between July and December in 2014 from 320 ECT in public and private kindergartens in Ankara. Early Childhood Teachers Children Participation Rights Belief Scale (ECTCPRBS) was constructed as a measuring tool and implemented to early childhood teachers in kindergartens. ECTs have neutral beliefstowardschildren’sparticipationindecision-makingprocesswhichaffectchildren. Lastly, independent sample t-test results revealed that there is no difference between ECTs who are aware of UNCRC and not aware of UNCRC and there is no difference between ECTs who have attended any training program in pre-service related to UNCRC and have not attended. Additionally,there is a signiﬁcant difference between ECTs who have attended any course, seminar, workshop or conferences in in-service related to UNCRC and have not attended any of them yet, and there is a signiﬁcant difference between ECTs who have read UNCRC and have not read yet.

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Early childhood education., Early childhood teachers., Developmental psychology., Child psychology.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12619051/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24853

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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T. Coşkun, “Early childhood teachers’ beliefs towards participation rights of children,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2015.