Suggestions for Solutions to the Problems of Interrupting, Speaking at the Same Time, Inability to be Pleasant-Spoken and Debonair within the Context of Action Research in Education

Abstract

This qualitative study is based on the solutions offered by the students of the "Action Research in Education" course within the scope of the pedagogical formation certificate program at Atatürk University Faculty of Education during a 10-minute presentation in the activity called "one solution to one problem." The data collected from the presentations were subjected to content analysis, and sentences were selected as the unit of analysis and tabulated. Subsequently, with the application of a scale developed by the researcher to the same students, two problems, which were not studied sufficiently during the presentations and that the researcher and students agreed were highly critical, were identified. An open-ended scale was applied to the same students about the problems of interruption/overlap and being unfriendly/speaking rudely, and the solution proposals developed by prospective teachers were analyzed by using the descriptive data analysis technique. It was determined that the prospective teachers had a certain awareness of these problems and could produce solutions that can be adapted to the education system. We believe that the study is also important in that it reflects the perspectives of prospective teachers who are important stakeholders of education.