Perceptions of the Teacher Candidates Towards Community Service Learning

被引:1
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作者
Soykan, Emrah [1 ]
Gunduz, Nuket [2 ]
Tezer, Murat [3 ]
机构
[1] Near East Univ, Dept Comp Educ & Instruct Technol, Nicosia, Cyprus
[2] Near East Univ, Dept Curricculum & Instruct, Nicosia, Cyprus
[3] Near East Univ, Ataturk Educ Fac, Nicosia, Cyprus
关键词
Community Service Learning; Community Service Learning Course; Teacher Candidates; PRESERVICE TEACHERS; OUTCOMES; STUDENT;
D O I
10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.314
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Students' psychological and cognitive development plays an important role in empowering their future career. Teacher candidates' perceptions in participation and practice in community service learning course is important in accomplishing the necessary development on this issue. This study aims to determine the perception of the teacher candidates towards "Community Service Learning" course. Mixed methods research is used for the study. The quantitative data is collected from 144 female 110 male teacher candidates by the scale "Perceptions of Teacher Candidates towards the practice of Community Service Learning Course" and qualitative data is collected from 76 teacher candidates with semi structured interview questions developed by the researchers. ANOVA, t-test and Mann Whitney U-Test are applied to analyze the collected quantitative data and open coding method for the qualitative data. The results of the study indicate that community service learning course empowers teacher candidates in terms of socialization, personal development, social responsibility and awareness to community needs. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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页码:2468 / 2477
页数:10
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