Investigation of the Academic Career Awareness of Teacher Candidates

The aim of this study is to examine the academic career awareness of prospective Turkish and Turkish language and literature teachers. It is important in terms of contributing to the field due to the limited studies conducted at the undergraduate level to examine the academic career awareness of prospective Turkish and Turkish language and literature teachers. Relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. In the 2022-2023 academic year, Atatürk University Faculty of Education Turkish and Turkish language and literature teacher candidates who continue to teach Turkish and Turkish language and literature at the 1st grade level 131; at the 2nd grade level 85; at the 3rd grade level 133 and at the 4th grade level 87 in total 436 teacher candidates were voluntarily included in the study group using the convenience sampling method. personal information form and academic career awareness scale developed by the researcher himself were used as data collection tools in the research. In the study, it was determined that there were significant differences between the mean scores of the participants according to their gender and grade levels. On the other hand, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the career awareness levels of the participants according to the types of high schools they graduated from and their economic income levels according to the mean scores they obtained from the career awareness scale.