Pre-School Teaching Students' Opinions on Distance Education: Preferences and Emotional States

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Preschool Education; Music Education; Preservice Teachers; Undergraduate Students; Late Adolescents; Preferences; Emotional Response; Distance Education; COVID-19; Pandemics; Correlation; Stress Variables; Financial Problems; News Reporting; Foreign Countries

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The COVID-19 pandemic, which has created obstacles in all areas of social and daily life since 2020, has completely prevented educational activities and caused drastic changes. Following the start of the COVID-19 restrictions, preschool education undergraduate students continued to take their music lessons with the distance education applications. It can be said that all of the students continued their distance education activities in these conditions with different socio-economic characteristics, physical opportunities and emotional diversity. In this study, which aims to examine the distance education applications offered to undergraduate students who have taken music lessons through distance education, in terms of their individual preferences and emotional conditions, 103 preschool teaching students took part as participants. The data of the research were obtained through the questionnaire prepared by the researcher and studied with the descriptive survey model. Some of the findings obtained in the research were that 60.2% of the participants' would have preferred face-to-face education if they had a choice in the restrictions, and that there was a significant relationship between participants' being psychologically impacted from the news they watched, their longing for their lives before the lockdown days and their economic status.

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2022

EJ1321124