The profile of the candidates of primary school teachers(Sample of Ankara)

This research work has been performed to describe the socio-cultural, demographic and economic structure, and to reveal the present profile of the students that are studying at the Department of Primary School Teaching.The reseach is thought to be significant in giving feedbacks to the institutions that trains teacher and to the resolution mechanism that is related with teacher training and in being useful with the achieved data to be assistant to the desicion that would be taken before the service.The research has a descpritive feature. The working group of the research consists of the students that are studying in the Department of Primary School Teaching in 2007-2008 education and teaching term in the province of Ankara Universities. (University of Ankara, Gazi, Hacettepe and Başkent)According to the datas achieved, the candidates of teachers have been concluded to have medium level in taking part in an artistic and cultural occasions. In respect to gender profile, the number of female students are more than the doubled number of male students. Generally the students coming from the border provinces have selected Ankara for their University preference. The candidate of teachers?, who have a moderate level parents in viewpoint of income level, participation into the socio-cultural facilities are in nominal level. While majority of the candidates of teachers? mothers are housewife, their fathers are generally laborer, ploughman or civil servant.The candidate of teachers? parents are generally graduated from primary schools. Besides, the university students regard the achieved education from universities adequate.