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Future Class Teachers and educational Robotics: Current State and Possible Future Use

The teaching profession demands constant education and training, so it is not surprising that study programmes that provide certain sets of skills to future teachers are under constant change. In this chapter, the focus is on students of class teacher studies who are trained for teaching educational programming languages, but did not have a lot of or any opportunity to work with educational robots. Since educational robotics is gaining more attention at all levels of education, it is almost certain that they will not only have the desire but also the need to use educational robotics in some segment of their future work.Students’ overall attitudes regarding the integration of educational robotics into higher education and primary school curriculum, including applicability of educational robots concerning different subjects in primary education and different university classes, were examined. In addition, their general familiarity with educational robotics, their motivation and interest for its use, subjective impression about their own educational background in a sense of preparedness for future use of educational robots in classroom, their suggestions for improvement of their knowledge and their estimation of potential positive impacts of educational robots use are presented. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to greater understanding of these students’ needs and the challenges they face regarding this issue to help the students to overcome them.

Higher education ; Class teacher students ; Educational robots ; Attitudes

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