New Perspectives in Science Education

Art has special supplementary and supportive mission during one’s education process as whole with mind, senses, body and soil together. It can be said that based on this mission art teachers have also special importance during this process. To accomplish this mission successfully, primarily art teachers should be well-trained. Therefore, as a conductor of teaching which requires stressful and tough hard work, teacher’s having balanced personality in terms of psychology is essential.

However, KPSS exam which is the representative aspect of employing teachers in Turkey, is a potential risk factor for teacher candidates’ psychology. When this exam is thought in sense of art teacher training and employing them, this system has become a barrier affecting teacher candidates’ psychology in negative way rather than choosing teachers fairly. This barriers ,which appear as fear of not being appointed, not only destroy the psychology of candidates but also affect their academically success. Hence, high level of anxiety affects and blocks learning.

This study whose aim is to determine the relation between motivation and anxiety of art teacher candidates was carried out with descriptive character and quantitive model. Data was obtained with likert type scale and it was analyzed with SPSS programme. After analyzing the data, these results were obtained; the main reasons of art teacher candidates ‘anxiety are problem of being appointed, implementation of KPSS exam and limited alternative employment after graduation.  Motivation patterns of the students are varies according to variables.