Abstract:

Social entrepreneurship emphasizes sociality and entrepreneurship in its essence. In a sense, it involves addressing social problems from an entrepreneurial point of view. The concept, the social phenomenon adds, means that social entrepreneurs are concerned with social problems. The field of theology and religious knowledge is within the social life. The majority of those graduated from these faculty are teachers. In the summer there is no study on the characteristics of social entrepreneurship of those who are studying or graduating in these sections. The aim of this study is to determine the social entrepreneurship characteristics of the students of the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Religious Sciences located in the KKTC in terms of various variables. The study group of the research is composed of students who are studying at the Faculty of Religious Sciences of the University of Yakındo East and the University of Social Sciences of Cyprus in 2017-2018 academic year. The scale of social entrepreneurship characteristics of the candidate teachers developed by Konaklı and Göğüş (2013) for the purpose of obtaining data to the research has been used. The scale consists of 3 dimensions and 21 items, including risk, self-confidence and personal creativity. The data of the study was analyzed with frequency, percentage, t test and ANOVA. The IBM SPSS 23.0 program was used in the analysis. The study found high levels of social entrepreneurship in students. The reasonability test found that the average score increased and the creativity was high. Moreover, those who never read a book found that one to four books per month were much more creative than those who never read a book. There was a significant difference in the size of self-confidence between the good and the good and the good. Keywords: entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; theology; religious sciences; teacher candidate.