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The art provides people a way to create works which show them how they see and think the world is. Taking this kind of perspective is important for functionality of sophisticated social studies teaching programme. According to this, by means of social studies in this study, it is aimed to provide a development in pre service teachers’ career development, personal development and the development of ability, value and experience with the performing arts practices. In this context music, theatre and dance, which are among the sub fields of performing arts, are worked. With this process, it is aimed to create social changes and improve individual perceptions which exist in action researches’ nature. This research is planned to be ‘’participatory action research’’ which is one of the qualitative research methods from action research pattern. Various observational notes, interviews, video recordings, and assessments were collected and datas are analyzed by content analysis. According to datas gathered from the research, the experience, knowledge, experience, ability and personal, psychological, cultural and artistic reasons are effective in preferring an art activity. Performing arts affect academic development in personal and social means, performing arts give people a chance to discover their strong and weak sides, moreover they support personal development. Performing arts are effective on knowledge, experience, value, vital and social abilities in the context of career development. The results showed that the performing arts provide quite important developments in experience, academic development, personal development, career development, ability and value context in means of the pre service teachers’ professionalization. By regarding these contributions, performing arts should be integrated into the education as a field of application in teacher education. In the context of related disciplines, performing arts should be integrated into the social studies teaching programmes and teacher training programmes.

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