AN EXAMINATION OF THE PROSPECTIVE SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS’ LIFE SKILLS

The aim of this study is to examine the prospective social studies teachers’ life skills by a number of variables. The study group of the research consists of 299 prospective social studies teachers receiving education at the faculty of education of a state university. The research was designed on descriptive survey model. As data collection tool in the research, the “Life Skills Scale (LSS)” developed by Bolat and Balaman (2017) was used. The data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS 24.0 statistical package. As based on the results obtained from the research, it has been detected that the life skills of prospective social studies teachers are generally at high level. When the prospective social studies teachers’ life skills are examined on the basis of sub-factors; it has been concluded that prospective teachers’ empathy and self consciousness, decision-making and problem solving, creative and critical thinking, and communication and interpersonal relation skills are at high level. The prospective social studies teachers’ life skills vary significantly at various sub-factors by gender, age, class level, a social institution, association and etc., which they are member of and where they engage in activities, the academic clubs which they join for relevant studies and their demand for receiving postgraduate education.

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