The survey of emphatic tendency and democratic values of primary school teachers

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between emphatic orientation and democratic values of primary school teacher who worked in public schools and private schools in Malatya Province. The study was conducted out using survey technique. The sample size of this study consisted of 300 teachers in Malatya in between 2014-2015 academic year. It was used three different data collect tools. The first one was “Personal Information Form” which was designed by the researches. The second was “Empathy Tendency Scale” which was developed by Dökmen (1988). And the last one was “Classroom Teachers Democratic Measurement Test” which was developed by Selvi (2007). The data was analyzed with, SPSS 20.0 package programme.as results, it was found that there was a significant difference in gender variable for emphatic tendency; however there wasn’t a significant statistically difference for age, seniority and marital status. It has found that there was a significant difference for seniority, in democratic values of teachers. It was determined that there was a positive relation in low level between emphatic tendency predisposition and democratic values of the primary school teachers. In conclusion the results suggest the more classroom teachers have emphatic tendency values the more they have democratic values.