Investigation of the value expression preferences of teacher candidates training in education faculties

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the value expression preferences of pre-service teachers from education faculties of different universities in Mugla Sıtkı Kocman University Faculty of Education summer school. The study group of the research consists of 268 pre-service teachers, 168 of which are female (62.7%) and 100 of which are male (37.3%). The value scale developed by Dilmaç, Arıcak and Cesur (2014) was used to examine pre-service teachers' value expression preferences. The sub-dimensions of the scale are "social values", "career values" intellectual values "," spirituality "," materialistic values "," human dignity "," romantic values "," freedom "," futuristic ". As a result, it can be stated that all of the 9 sub-dimensions in the values scale high expectation of value was obtained for all dimensions. According to the results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, it was concluded that the distributions were not normal, since gender, location, age, department, class level and marital status showed a significant difference at p <.05. However, it is not decided only according to this test result. Skewness and kurtosis values are between -2 and +2 for scale and subscales. In this case, it can be stated that the scores do not differ significantly from normal. In this case, it was concluded that the scores of the scale and its sub-dimensions were normally distributed. Descriptive statistics, unrelated samples t test, Mann Whitney U test, one way variance analysis and Kruskal Wallis H test techniques were used to analyze the data. SPSS 25 statistical analysis program was used. As a result of the research, the pre-service teachers' value expression preferences differed significantly according to their gender; it is seen that the other average scores do not differ significantly. For Social Value, the average score of girls (= 84.69) is higher than the average of boys (= 81.93). Similarly, for Intellectual Values, the average of girls (= 41.63) is higher than the average of boys (= 39.98). Key words: Values, values education,for the teaching profession values, teacher candidates, value preferences, faculty of education