Investigation of the Educational Philosophies Adopted by Teachers According to Some Variables
Teachers' educational philosophies are in the form of perennialist, essentialist, progressivist, existentialist and reconstructionist according to the philosophy they basically hold. Teachers' types of creating, organising and directing education in their classrooms are shaped according to these different educational beliefs. This study aims to examine the educational philosophies adopted by teachers according to some variables. The population of the study consists of 13505 teachers working in the central districts of Diyarbakır in the 2023-2024 academic year. The sample of the study consists of 400 teachers determined by random sampling from the universe. The scale developed by Yılmaz, Altınkurt and Çokluk (2011) consists of 5 sub-dimensions: 'progressivism', 'existential education', 'reconstructionism', 'perennialism' and 'essentialism'. In the analysis of the research data; arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage values were calculated. In addition, t-test and ANOVA test were used in the study. As a result of the analyses, it was seen that the educational philosophies adopted by the teachers did not differ significantly according to their gender, tenure status and seniority.

Keywords
Teacher, Educational philosophies, Progressivism, Reconstructionism, Perennialism