Título: The Character Educators of Future: What Do They Know? What Do They Need?
Autor: Sarı, Mediha; Yolcu, Ece
Resumen: [EN] Providing the wholistic development of individual in terms of personal and
psychological characteristics guiding our actions with educational processes
forms “the character education”. Teachers as an important figure in this
process should be aware of character education and what they are
responsible for. To achieve this, teacher education should include the
essentials of character education and prepare teachers for their inevitable
role within their professional life. This study aimed to reveal what the
preservice primary school teachers know about character education and
what their needs through their education for becoming a character educator
are. The participants were preservice teachers from primary school
education department in Cukurova University. The data was collected with
an open ended quesitonnaire and analyzed using content analysis. According
to findings, it is obvious that preservice teachers are mostly aware of the
importance and content of character education and they see what their future
roles are. They came up with many recommendations for teachers and
teacher education. This study is thought to be beneficial in terms of revealing
the situation within preservice teachers regarding character education
awareness and also helping teacher educators to see what preservice
teachers need to be efficient character educators.
