Definition of the values that pre-service teachers want their students to gain

The purpose of the present research is defining which values pre-service teachers, who have an important responsibility in values education, want their students to have most, and which values they will try to teach to their students. The research adopted case study, which enables the studying and analysis of one or some special cases in detail. Within the scope of the present research, semi-structures interviews were conducted with the participants, which include 34 pre-service teachers, who got formation education at Bartın University, Faculty of Education. Data were written on the computer by the researcher first, then were analysed using descriptive analysis, which is a qualitative research method. Three experts were asked for opinions to provide the reliability of the research. The numbers agreementsand disagreements were detected, and the reliability was calculated as 92%. According to obtained findings, the values pre-service teachers want to teach their students are; love and respect. The most important reason for this finding is that, these values form the basis for other values, and these values are more difficult to teach than others. Consequently, it can be claimed that, the values that pre-service teachers want to teach their students are actually the values that they themselves should have.