Ankara'daki İlköğretim Öğretmenlerinin Okuma ve Kütüphane Kullanma Alışkanlıkları

Abstract

YÜCEBAŞ, Ayşegül. Reading habits and library usage level of primary school teachers in Ankara, Master Thesis, Ankara, 2017.

One of the most important factors for development, being one of the modern countries and getting the position of a leader country is owing to reach scientific, accurate and reliable source of information. For the realization of this, the importance of reading and benefiting from libraries in which the source of knowledge exists must be taken into consideration. Starting from the earliest stages of education, the importance of the libraries which are the most reliable and effective way to achieve the scientific scope and reading must be assented. From this point of view, it is necessary to develop practical and incentive methods to increase the functions of libraries and accessing library sources. As the preferred and widespread use of internet to access information in today’s World developing new methods with the aim of informing the people with scientific methods is important to increase library use via the internet. This study was carried out for evaluation about reading habits and library use of primary school teachers, who are the most effective factor for the acquisition of these habits by students. The samples of this research consist of 6 districts, 48 primary school and 114 primary school teachers. Descriptive method with questionnaire, observation and interviewing techniques are used in this research. As it is defined in the hypothesis of this study; although there is a true proportion between reading habits and library use of primary school teachers working in state schools in Ankara, these teachers don’t have proper capability to fulfill the requirements to get the students gain reading habits and library use. According to the results obtained from this study, it can be seen that reading habits and library use of primary school teachers in Ankara are true proportional, it is confirmed that these teachers don’t have proper capability to fulfill the requirements to get the students gain reading and library use habits affected much because of many factors such as curriculum, family and environment.