Changes in democratic attitudes of trainee teachers over time

The purpose in this study was to investigate the democratic attitudes of prospective teachers in line with certain variables. The study was carried out with 233 randomly selected teacher trainees during the 2005-2006 academic year. A democratic attitude scale was applied to student teachers while they were freshmen in 2002 and seniors in 2005. Results showed that democratic attitudes of the student teachers did not change over time.