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Critical thinking is a different thinking method than other thinking methods and an important element of all academic disciplines and professional fields. It is a way of deciding whether a assertion is true, partially false, or true and a process that leads to skills that can be learned, mastered and used. Besides, it is known that physical activity / sport is also a very important for psycho-social skills like communication skill, problem solving skill, empathy skill, etc. People, who give importance to sport, are interested in sport, work out, play sports, do physical exercises, go to the gym; have definite sporty attitudes and are healthier than other people who don’t do physical exercises.

It has been proved that critical thinking or physical activity tendencies have many applications in many fields and that they have positive effects in education. But it was seen that research in the field of all education in Turkey lacked the focus on correlation between critical thinking and sporty attitude. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate of the correlation between critical thinking tendencies and sporty attitudes of music teacher candidates. In light of this aim, 92 arbitrary music teacher candidates who study at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Art Education, Music Education Program, have been participated in this research. The Turkish versions of the “California Critical Thinking Test” (Kökdemir, 2003) and “Sporty Attitude Scale” (Şentürk, 2013) have been applied to all 92 students that have participated in the research and the correlation between them has been analyzed by authors.

As a result, statistically significant relationship was not found between critical thinking tendencies and sporty attitudes of music teacher candidates. This study, for the future of education, may be applied to different groups of education, to widen its scope.