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The main purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of prospective teachers about the hidden curriculum and to examine these opinions in terms of various variables. The embedded pattern from mixed approaches was used in the research. The Sample of the research consists of 945 students attending 9 different departments of Elazığ Fırat University Faculty of Education in the fall semester of the 2021/2022 academic year. A total of 27 prospective teachers were reached for the qualitative dimension of the research. The principle of volunteerism was taken as the basis in both dimensions of the research. The “Hidden Curriculum Scale”, a reliable and valid scale developed by Akbulut and Aslan (2016), was used as a data collection tool in the research. An interview form developed by the researchers was used as a qualitative data tool. Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) normality test was performed on the obtained quantitative data and it was found that the distribution of the data was normal. For this reason, independent groups t-test was used in two-variable comparisons, and one-way analysis of variance was used in cases with more than two variables. In the analysis of qualitative data; content analysis method was used in accordance with the phenomenological pattern. When the results of the research were examined, significant differences were observed in some demographic characteristics of prospective teachers. Various suggestions have been developed in connection with the findings of the research.
