Examining the relationship between entrepreneurship characteristics and reflective thinking levels of pre-service teachers

In today's rapidly increasing competition environment of the knowledge age, surviving and existing depend on the economic development levels of the societies. Entrepreneurship has become more and more important in the development of the civilization, especially with the move from industrial society to knowledge society. With entrepreneurship ideas are brought together with production factors and production has been made. Today, it is necessary to support, encourage and provide entrepreneurship trainings which have a significant role in the economic and social development of the societies. Reflective thinking, a high order thinking skill, is defined as cognitive questioning pioneering an individual to produce new knowledge and develop alternative ways. It is seen that there are many similarities between individuals with reflective thinking skills and individuals who have entrepreneurship skills. Therefore, this study aims at examining the relationship between the pre-service teachers‟ entrepreneurship skills and their reflective thinking levels. The population of the study is the pre-service teachers studying at SakaryaUniversity. The study is a quantitative study and is carried out as a review. "Reflective Thinking Tendency Scale" and "Entrepreneurship Scale for University Students" are used as data collection instruments. And t-test, univariate analysis of variance (anova), Bonferroni test and Pearson product-moment correlation analysis are carried out. And the data are analysed and interpreted using statistical techniques using SPSS for Windows version: 24.0. Reflective thinking levels and entrepreneurship characteristics of the pre-service teachers are examined based on gender, department and grade level variables. Based on the findings in the study, the following results are derived: It is found that the highest score in reflective thinking tendency scale is under "Inquiry-based and effective teaching" sub-scale. It is seen that female pre-service teachers‟ reflective thinking levels is higher compared to male pre-service teachers. According to the gender scale any significant differences of entrepreneur properties are not seen It is seen that preservice teachers' who are in this study the entrepreneurship properties are at the level of High Entrepreneurship It is seen that according to the variance of the classes second grade preservice teachers entrepreneurship properties are higher. Furthermore, any differences are occurred between the preservice teachers who are taught entrepreneur lessons and who are not taught the lesson, are seen. According to the variance of the entrepreneurship properties show that second grade students. Preservice teachers of Physical Education Department A significant differences are occurred in the entrepreneur score as the case between Preservice teachers of Physical Education Department who does the sports. However, it is seen that entrepreneur properties are not affected with the preservice teachers who are the registered sports player. It is found that at the result of the Pearson correlation analysis is; there is a positive and significant relations between entrepreneur and all reflective sub dimensions. In accordance with the verities preservice teacherscan be defined as the person whose entrepreneur properties and reflective thinking level is high. Key words: Preservice teachers, Entrepreneur, Reflective thinking