Examination of the impact of the course of character and value education on the attitudes of Turkish language and literature prospective teachers about value education

The purpose of this survey is to determine the impact of the course of Character and Value Education on the attitudes of prospective teachers about value education. The quantitative research approach has been adopted in this study and the pattern of single group preliminary test- final test was used as a method. The study group of this research study is formed by 50 Turkish language and literature prospective teachers who have selected the course of Character and Value Education as the elective course in the Pedagogical Formation Program of Sinop University in the fall semester of the academic year 2018-2019. "Attitude scale on value education" developed by Cetin (2018) has been used as a means of data collection in the survey. The scale which was used as a preliminary test prior to the experimental processes and as a final test thereafter on the study group consists of 3 sub-dimensions and 31 articles. All data obtained from the survey were analyzed in SPSS 25 package program. The dependent variable t-test was used to determine whether the difference between the preliminary and final test scores are meaningful. At the end of the survey the applications of which lasted 14 weeks, it was observed that the course of Character and Value Education has increased the attitudes of the prospective teachers directed at the sub-dimensions of the belief in the necessity of value education and internalization of value education. On the other hand, in the dimension of the negative belief on the value education which is another sub-dimension of the scale it has been observed that there is no meaningful difference between the preliminary and final test scores of the prospective teachers, that the prospective teachers had no negative opinion about the value education prior to the experimental processes, nor such a negative opinion has emerged after the experimental processes