Attitudes of Hacettepe University, Division of Primary Education Students for Intellectual Freedom

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine approaches to intellectual freedom of teachers in the future will serve as a classroom teacher.

A questionnaire was conducted to total of 100 students from Hacettepe University Elementary Education, Division of Primary Education 4th Grade Students. The results of the survey, most of teachers’ has developed positive attitude to intellectual freedom and provided a positive contribution to their families and communities in general before university education but the impact of teachers is not adequate in this regard. The awareness of teacher candidates’ intellectual freedom partially increased in the course ofuniversity education.One of the positive results is the study that they are aware of importancetheir impact on the students’ attitudes about intellectual freedom in future.