Özet:

Almost since the beginning of 2020, the virus called Covid 19 has been threatening human health all over the world. The only way to be protected from the epidemic is to stay away from social environments. For this reason, many human activities, especially educational activities, were restricted. In this process, schools were closed and educational activities began to be carried out by distance education method. The only option for the epidemic to cause the least damage to our education life seems to be digitalization in education. This study was conducted to reveal how the epidemic process affects the teaching competencies of social studies teacher candidates. It is known that with the onset of the Covid-19 epidemic, there was a sudden transition to distance education in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. Therefore, it has been seen that most of the studies on the effect of the epidemic on education are aimed at revealing the effects of this sudden transition. For this reason, at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year fall semester, it is aimed that teacher candidates will evaluate this semester in terms of their own competencies. In this study, pre-service teachers studying in the final year in the Fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year were selected as the participant group. In this study, which was designed as a case study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, the data were analyzed by content analysis. It has been revealed that social studies teacher candidates could not sufficiently develop their field competencies and professional skills during the epidemic process. Pre-service teachers found the EBA TV social studies course useful for them during the epidemic, and stated that this platform could become more efficient with games and activities in general. 

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