An Investigation of the Effect of Entrepreneurship Course on Social Studies Teacher Candidates

Year 2018, Volume: 10 , 30 - 34, 12.09.2018

Ozkan Akman

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the reflections
of the social studies teacher candidates’ perceptions of entrepreneurship
course integrated with the social studies curriculum in terms of understanding
and application. For this purpose, it has been tried to determine the
perceptions of entrepreneurship perceptions, outof-school reflections,
proficiency perceptions and entrepreneurship perceptions of the prospective
teachers. Within this scope, candidate teachers who have trained in
entrepreneurship course have benefited from the lessons they have taken over a
period of time. This research is designed according to the phenomenological
research design. Participants of the study were 18 (8 female-10 male)
prospective teachers. Analyzes of the data were obtained by semi-structured
interview form conducted with the teacher candidates at the end of the
semester. The data were analyzed by content analysis. As a result, it is seen
that the social studies teacher candidates reflect positively on the
perceptions of entrepreneurship. There were also positive changes in classroom
out-of-class educational perceptions. It has also been found that
entrepreneurship is perceived as being brave, taking risks, earning money and
being determined. Depending on these results, it can be said that the
entrepreneurship lesson should be taught in different sections without
interruption.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Social studies, Teacher candidates

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