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Makale Özeti:
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the views of pre-service teachers on teaching profession
regarding the technician-professional conflict. The study is descriptive survey study in nature, and
the participants are 439 pre-service teachers -third year or senior students- who were randomly
chosen from nine different departments in Faculty of Education at Çukurova University, Adana,
Turkey. Data were collected using The Views on Teaching Profession Scale (VTS) with four
dimensions that consist of items including technician and professional teacher qualities. Results show
that the pre-service teachers mainly adopted the “professional teacher” approach and thought that
the undergraduate education contributed to this approach more than the others. As to the technician
teacher approach, the participants’ adoption level regarding the contribution was at a similar rate.
Results also show that all dimensions of the scale indicated significant differences in favor of female
pre-service teachers in terms of the gender variable, showing that their adoption level through
teaching approaches and the level of contribution by undergraduate education to these approaches
were higher compared to males. In conclusion, it could be asserted that pre-service teachers mostly
adopted the professional teacher approach and they believed their pre-service education contributed
to the development of this teaching understanding.
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