An investigation of resistant behaviors of the teacher candidates toward the teaching certificate courses

The aim of this research was to determine the resistant behaviors of prospective teachers toward the Teaching Certificate Courses and to examine the reasons of resistant behaviors. In this study, qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. The research was carried out at Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey (N= 848). The quantitative data of the study were gathered with the “The Resistance towards Teaching Certificate Courses Scale” developed by Yüksel (2004). In order to identify the reasons of active resistant behaviors, interviews were made on voluntary basis with 42 students chosen by criterion sampling of the purposive sampling method. The derived data were interpreted with the descriptive analysis technique.