Abstract:

The main purpose of this paper is to explore pre-service social studies teachers’ perception about Community Service Practices course. This study also aims to examine participants perceptions bu gender, university, and Project number. The authors applied survey method in this research. The data were collected through “Survey of Pre-service Teachers Perception About Community Service Practices Course”, developed by Elma and at al. (2010). The study group was consisted of 101 preservice teachers, who were taking Community Service Practices courses at Dumlupınar University and Usak University in 2013 – 2014 academic year. In order to examine whether participants’ perception differ by gender, university and Project number, the authors applied independent sample t-test and one way analysis of varience (ANOVA). The findings showed that participants have positive attitudes toward Community Service Practices course. Also the findings of this study demonstrated that there were significant differences on personal development by gender, socialization by university, and socialization by project number

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