Investigation of leadership and creativity features of teacher candidates

The purpose of this study was to investigate of leadership and creativity features of teacher candidates. The descriptive method was used in the study. Totally 787 teacher candidates (male=304, female=483) that were studied in the Physical Education and Sport, Math for Primary Education, Social Knowledge, English Language, Turkish Language and Primary School Teacher Education Departments at 2015-2016 academic year. Two scales used for obtaining data. One of them was Leadership Styles Survey that was developed by Bolman and Deal (1992), translated by Dereli (2002). Other of them was Adaption-Innovation Inventory that was developed by Kirton (1976). Independent sample T and One Way ANOVA tests were used for analysis of data. When examine the leadership and creativity features of research group as gender variable, it was determined that political framework, symbolic framework, and creativity of male subjects higher than female subjects (p<0,05). When examine the leadership and creativity features of research group as department variable, it was determined that human resources framework, political framework, symbolic framework, and creativity features were determined significant (p<0,05). As a result, men have higher leadership and creativity features than women, and physical education and sport teacher department students have higher values in leadership and creativity than other departments.