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The aim of this research is to determine the effect of supporting the adaptation process to the faculty of the first – grade freshmen social studies teachers’ candidates wıth creative drama. The study group of the research consisted of the first - grade freshmen 57 students attending the social studies teaching at Akdeniz University in the first week of 2017-2018 educational years. The experimental design model with pre-test – post-test control group was used in the study. In addition, the qualitative data acquired from the evaluation of the process in the study was used to support the quantitative findings. The nine - session creative drama workshops (each workshop lasting 180 minutes) prepared for the study by the researchers were applied. The outcomes of each workshop were written by taking the expert opinions into consideration and the teaching and learning activities were prepared in the light of these outcomes.  The Evaluation Form for Orientation Study including 40 likert-type items, developed by the researcher in accordance with the outcomes of the study and the expert opinions, was applied at the beginning and the end of the research. The collected quantitative data were analysed with SPSS 21.0 program. At the end of the orientation course, the responses that the students in the experimental group gave to the Evaluation Form for Orientation Study, the evaluation letters they wrote to the workshop leader and the written replies that they gave to open-ended questions were analysed by the descriptive analysis. The analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data showed that the orientation education realized with the creative drama activities had a highly positive effect on recognizing their schools, teachers and friends much better thanks to the personal, professional and social developments of the students in the experimental group.

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