Role of school on character education and character development according to teacher?s wievs

The aim of this study is to put forward teacher?s point of view concerningschool?s effects on character education and character development. The researcheswere materilized in the model including, in Çanakkale 2007-2008 educationintructionyear, 15 teachers? opinions working in 10 primary schools. Study is aqualitative searching.In the research, datas were collected by the researcher developed conversationforms in the light of related literature. Conversation forms were semi-constructed.Voice Recorder (phonoscope) was used. Before the conversations ,which wereconvenient for conversation forms, were not applied to teachers ; pilot applicationswere bulit with interviews with 7 teachers who are not included to studying group.According to results , conversation forms were re-constructed.Conversations, convenient for conversation forms, were applied to primary4th -5th grade teachers and primary second grade branch teachers. Conversationwere merely applied to volunteer teachers.In the respect of the results, in student character development and charachereducation; school?s effect, administrator, teacher, school climate, discipline, coursetypes.School is effective according to findings. Teachers are most effective incharacter education. Teachers? classroom applications and classroom managementapproach are effective on students character development. School administrators areeffective on students character education according to teachers views. Social scienceteaching, art, music and physical training have effective role on character education.Outside activities are important for students? character development but they are notenough.