Preschool Teachers’ Tendency Level of Lifelong Learning

Turan Çakır

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Recently, it is seen that rapid changes have started to change perspectives on education. With the development of information technologies, this change has started to make continuous education compulsory. The paradigm of continuous change and development in education is Lifelong Learning. Raising individuals who are inclined towards lifelong learning (LLL) reveals the new human type that this change should produce. The aim of this study is to determine the level of LLS tendencies of preschool teachers and to compare them according to various variables. The research was conducted with descriptive survey model on preschool teachers. In this context, it is understood that their level of HLT is generally high, but they consider themselves inadequate in terms of foreign language tendency. Among the variables examined in the study, according to the age variable, it is seen that the arithmetic mean of the opinions of the age groups are close to each other and there is no significant difference between the opinions of preschool teachers. However, it was determined that there was a significant difference according to gender and marital status variables. According to the gender variable, it is understood that male teachers have a higher tendency towards HBÖ than female teachers, and according to the marital status variable, it is understood that single teachers have a higher tendency towards HBÖ than married teachers and their opinions differ significantly. Preschool teachers have learning tendencies in all age groups and have learning cultures.

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