The Attitudes of Primary School Teachers towards Leisure

Özden Tepeköylü Öztürk,Yeliz Ilgar Doğan,Mümine Soytürk

doi:10.11114/jets.v7i4.4142

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the attitudes of primary school teachers towards leisure. It also aims to determine whether the attitudes of primary school teachers vary according to their gender and leisure activities they attend. A total of 355 primary school teachers ( age= 45.08±7.91), including 188 females and 167 males, volunteered to participate in this study. “Leisure Attitude Scale" developed by Beard and Ragheb (1982) and adapted into Turkish by Akgül and Gürbüz (2010) and “General Information Form” were utilized to collect data. The findings of this study indicates that the leisure attitudes levels of teachers were quite high ( mean= 4.28±.33). Also according to gender of the participants, a significant difference was found in favor of the female teachers in regards to the attitude of leisure in the cognitive sub-dimension and in total points but not in the affective and behavioral sub-dimensions. In terms of the most preferred leisure activity, there was a significant difference in the behavioral sub-dimension of the leisure attitude scale of teachers, whereas there was no statistically significant difference in the cognitive, affective sub-dimensions and total scores. Accordingly, teachers who preferred physical activities in leisure had higher points than the ones who preferred other activities with regards to the behavioral sub-dimensional. In addition, no significant relationship was found between the ages of the teachers, the years of professional service, the leisure attitude scale sub-dimensions and total score.

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Today, education is one of the most important factors in the structuring and raising of an individual
While students are affected by the behaviors of teachers, they are affected by the attitudes of teachers (Kyriakides et al, 2009; Zang et al, 2018)
The population of the study consists of 1872 primary school teachers, working in 97 schools located in the central districts of Denizli province

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Education is one of the most important factors in the structuring and raising of an individual. The most important element in education is teacher. They start the process of teacher-student relationship by interacting with the child by means of emotion, thought and behaviors. In this process, while teachers provide academic learning by transferring their knowledge, they provide different behavioral changes in students with their personality, behaviors and positive/negative attitudes (Kılıç et al, 2004). Education environment is related with the attitudes of teachers (Ergün, 1998). While students are affected by the behaviors of teachers, they are affected by the attitudes of teachers (Kyriakides et al, 2009; Zang et al, 2018)

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