Ideologies, Attitudes, and Curriculum Change: Teachers’ Perception

This study investigates the effects of educational ideologies on teachers’ perceptions and their attitudes towards curriculum reform. For this purpose, in order to explore teachers’ beliefs related with the recent curriculum change, identifying educational beliefs became especially important since they are the principal implementers of the curriculum. Participants of this study were teachers from primary and secondary schools. Data were gathered from the participants via two inventories, Educational Ideologies Inventory and Teachers’ Receptivity to Change Inventory. The results of the study indicated some key contribution from teachers’ standpoint that their educational ideologies were considerably compatible with the approach of the new curriculum. Although most of the teachers confirmed tendency in the direction of liberal educational ideologies and in consequence there were no significant difference between teachers’ educational ideologies and their receptivity of curriculum change, it would be an important contribution to the literature to investigate the belief of teachers if they mainly had conservative educational ideologies toward curriculum change.