The investigation of harmony between teacher's thoughts on nature of learning and their applied teaching activities in teaching and learning process

This study is carried out in order to determine what a relation between different branch teachers' thoughts on nature of learning and these teachers' applied teaching activities in school exists. For this aim, observation rapports as data gathering instrument were created in order to assign teachers' teaching methods. Therefore, an interview was prepared to find out the thoughts about nature of learning. The observations and interviews were applied to 15 teachers working at different branches of different high schools like Ziya Gökalp High School, Nevzat Karabaǧ Anatolian Teacher Training High School, Erzurum High School, Nenehatun Girls High School, Cumhuriyet High School, Kazim Karabekir Industrial Vocational High School, 3 Temmuz High School, İMKB High School, Atatürk High School, Rifki Salim Burçak Girls Vocational High School and Atatürk Industrial Vocational High School which are under the authority of Erzurum Directorate of National Education. After the analyses of data, it was found that there is no harmony between teachers' thoughts on nature of learning and their teaching methods chosen in teaching and learning processes. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.