Analysis of Empathic Tendencies of Pre-School Pre-Services Teachers

Empathy is a process of an individual's looking things with the other side's point of view by putting himself in the shoes of him, understanding and feeling that person's feelings and thoughts correctly and conveying this situation to him. For that reason, empathy is both an important variable in educational activities and it is also considered as an important determinant in realizing especially pre-school activities by the educationalists who have high emphatic skills; the ability to think creatively and in a qualified way and continuing pre-school education in a more qualified way. This aim of this study is to analyze the empathic tendencies of first and second grade students who study in Child Development program of Kesan Vocational College of Trakya University in terms of various variables. Population of the study is first and second grade students who study in Child Development program of Kesan Vocational College of Trakya University in 2012-2013 academic year. There is no sample group since all population group is reached. A total of 88 students are included in the study. Relational screening between dependent and independent variables is conducted this study which is in screening model. "Empathic Tendency Scale" developed by Prof. Dr. Ustun DOKMEN is used in the study to analyse empathic tendencies of pre-school pre-service teachers. In the analysis of the data, arithmetic mean; standard deviation; t test for testing the relation between two variables in tendency scores; F test for testing the relation of more than two variables were used. The level of significance is determined as 0.05 in the analysis of the data. As a result, it is determined that empathic tendency scores of pre-school pre-service teachers are in good level and there is meaningful difference according to the variables (age and taking applied course in pre-school educational institutes) analyzed in the study.