The Relationship between Prospective Social Studies Teachers’ Attitudes towards Gender Roles and Entrepreneurship Levels

Fadime Seçgin,Ayşegül Tural

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.8n.4p.64

Abstract

Social studies is an important course to include current issues and associate them with life. Within the course, the concept of gender and supporting the entrepreneurship of individuals are noteworthy. Since it is an interdisciplinary course, the recognition of gender roles, and understanding correctly and developing the concept of entrepreneurship are emphasized in the course content. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the prospective social studies teachers’ attitudes towards gender roles considered to play an important role in the emergence of entrepreneurial skills and their entrepreneurship levels. For this purpose, the study was carried out using a relational screening model. The study group consisted of 222 prospective teachers studying in social studies teacher education program at a university located in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey during the 2016-2017 academic year. In the study, Gender Roles Attitude Scale developed by Zeyneloğlu (2008) and University Students Entrepreneurship Scale developed by Yılmaz and Sünbül (2009) were used as data collection tools. As a result of the study, it was found that there is a significant relationship between the participants’ egalitarian gender role attitudes and entrepreneurship levels.

Highlights

The rapid changes in science and technology in today’s world and the accompanying innovations directly affected the roles expected from individuals
An independent sample t-test was conducted to determine whether prospective social studies teacher s’ gender create a significant difference on their attitudes towards gender and entrepreneurship levels
This study firstly examined attitudes of the prospective social studies teachers towards gender roles and their entrepreneurship levels according to gender variable and tried to determine the relationship between both attitudes

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Introduction

The rapid changes in science and technology in today’s world and the accompanying innovations directly affected the roles expected from individuals. Entrepreneurship, which has great meanings for developed economies, has become a part of education for these countries. In this respect, it is known that entrepreneurship education is included in the current curricula of European and US education policies. For Turkey, in order to keep up with the changes in the world and to raise entrepreneurial individuals, entrepreneurship has taken place in primary education programs as a skill (See Science Education Program, 2018; Social Studies Curriculum, 2018)

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