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The study aims to investigate the global citizenship and media literacy skills of pre-service social studies teachers based on various variables and determine the correlation between media literacy and global citizenship skills. The study was conducted with 502 pre-service teachers attending the Social Studies Teaching Department. The study data were collected the media literacy skills scale developed by Erişti & Erdem (2017), and the global citizenship scale adapted in to Turkish language by Şahin & Çermik (2014). The data were analyzed with the Independent Samples T test, ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. The findings demonstrated that there were no differences between the media literacy skills of pre-service teachers based on gender and daily internet use; however, there were differences based on class level, level of use of digital tools and previous attendance in a media literacy course. It was determined that there were differences between their global citizenship levels based on gender, class level, level of use of digital tools and previous attendance in a media literacy course, and there were no differences based on daily internet use. Other study findings revealed that there was a low, positive and significant correlation between media literacy and global citizenship skills of pre-service teachers.

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