The Relation between Academic Internal Motivation and Self-Leadership Levels of Preschool Teacher Candidates

This research was carried out in order to determine the relation between academic internal motivation and self-leadership levels of preschool teacher candidates. the research was carried out in the relational scanning model. the study group of the research consists of totally 226 teacher candidates who attend uludağ university faculty of education preschool education department in 2017-2018 education year. within the research self-leadership scale and also academic internal motivation scale and personal information from were used. the relation between academic internal motivation and self-leadership levels of preschool teacher candidates was determined with “pearson product moment correlation coefficient”. in addition whether there is a difference between academic interval motivation and the self-leadership of the preschool teacher candidates according to class grade was examined by “kruskal wallis test”. as a result of the research it was determined that there is relation between academic interval motivation and the self-leadership of the preschool teacher candidates positively. in order to keep up with the changing world it is necessary to rear teachers who have high level of self-leadership and like doing their job.