The Attitudes and Awareness of the Teacher Candidates about Cultural Heritage

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine of the teacher candidates’ attitudes and awareness levels towards culturalheritage and to ensure that the teacher candidates gain awareness of cultural heritage. The research is based on anexperimental model from quantitative research approaches and the population consists of teacher candidates who studyin Faculty of Education at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University. Simple random sampling method was used to determinesample of the study. The data of the study was gathered with Personal Information Form and the Cultural HeritageAttitude Scale developed by Akbaba (2014). SPSS 22 program is used in the analysis of the data. According to theresults obtained, it is determined that gender, class and education status of the father are not effective in attitudes andawareness towards cultural heritage, whereas the undergraduate program and education of mother play an effectiverole. It has been determined that the educational trip has positively affected the transfer of cultural heritage,consciousness of cultural heritage and cultural heritage for the society.