Investigation of the level of individual innovativeness lifelong learning trends training managers

The aim of this resarch is to examine the relation between the level of individual innovativeness of education managers and their life-long learning tendencies, by examining the life-long learning tendencies of individual education managers and individual innovativeness levels according to various variables (gender, managerial experience, age and education level). Survey method was used for this research. The participants of the research consists of 164 education administrators who worked in Bartın province in 2015-2016 education year and voluntarily participated in the research. The survey used for the research data was developed by the researcher to obtain various demographic information the participants and used "Scale for Life-Long Learning Tendencies" developed by Diker Coşkun (2009) in order to determine the life-long learning tendencies of the education managers and "Individual Innovativeness Scale" adapted into Turkish by Kılıçer and Odabaşı (2010) in order to determine the individual innovativeness levels of the training managers. Analysis of the research data was made with the SPSS package software. T-test and ANOVA from parametric tests were used for descriptive statistics (arithmetic mean, standard deviation); Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis H test for non-parametric tests in the analysis of data. Spearman's rho correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between the two scales. As a result of the research; It is seen that the life-long learning tendencies of the education administrators participating in the research are above the mid-scale scale and the individual innovativeness levels are in the questioning category. It is concluded that there is a positive, moderate and meaningful relationship between the life-long learning tendencies of education managers and individual innovativeness levels. Life-long learning tendencies of education managers showed significant differences according to sex and life-long learning tendencies of women education managers were found to be higher. It has been found that the life-long learning tendencies of the training managers do not show any significant difference according to the managerial experience. Educational managers' life-long learning tendencies were not significantly different by age. It has been observed that there is a significant difference in the life-long learning tendencies of the education managers compared to the education levels and that the life-long learning tendencies of the graduate educators are higher. It was seen that there was no significant difference between the levels of individual innovativeness of education managers by sex. It was observed that the level of individual innovativeness was significantly different from the level of managerial experience of education managers and that the level of individual innovation scores increased as managerial experience increased. It has been seen that there is no significant difference in the level of individual innovativeness of education managers according to age. According to the education levels, there was no significant difference between the individual innovation scores of the education administrators. Keywords: Education Manager, Lifelong Learning Tendency, Individual Innovativeness