Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions About Rituals in Education and Rituals’ Functions

AbstractRituals are a part of everyday life (Quantz and Magolda, 1997) and they also appear in experiences in educational institutions. National holidays, pupil oaths, reading festivals, and flag-raising ceremonies are the rituals which appear in classrooms, schools, and educational environments can be taken into consideration. This paper aims to examine pre-service teachers’ perceptions about ritual in education and rituals’ functions. Rituals as national holidays and Independence March have been perceived as positive by pre-service teachers. On the other hand, rituals to control the outfit and taking teacher as an authority figure have been perceived as negative by pre-service teachers. In addition to these, according to pre-service teachers’ perceptions, rituals have both positive and negative impacts