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Social Skills have important roles in an individual's life. Because they facilitate communication with other persons. It is inevitable for some occupation groups the need for having social skills. One of these occupation groups is profession of teaching. Because relations between student and teacher in the class, constitute the learning and education basis. In this study has been quest an answer for question of "How is the social skills level of fine arts teacher candidates that are the future's art educators?". The 3rd grade students (n=32+42=74) that study in the Music and Art Education programs of Karadeniz Technical University, constitute the universe of the study. This research is a survey. As a data collection tool, for determine of students' social skills level, Social Skills Inventory (SSI) that has been improved by Riggio, (1989) and adapted to Turkish by Yüksel, (1997), has been used. Obtained data has been statistically analyzed by SPSS software program. At the end of study, the level of music and art teacher candidates' social skills have been determined, compared and some suggestions have been made according to the research results.

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