ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ SOSYAL BİLİMLER VE SOSYAL BİLGİLER KAVRAMLARINA İLİŞKİN BİLİŞSEL YAPILARI: KELİME İLİŞKİLENDİRME TESTİ UYGULAMASI

Abstract

This study aims to investigate cognitive structure of primary education pre-service teachers regarding social studies and social sciences. 3rd grade primary education pre-service teachers who were taking the course of Social Studies Education in Primary School Teacher Education Program at the Education Faculty of Anadolu University in the spring 2012-2013 participated in this survey model designed study. In this study, word association test was used as a data collection tool to reveal the cognitive structure of primary school teacher candidates. Cut-off points were figured out in light of information about how many different answers were given and how many times these answers were used for which key concepts. Cut-off points used to prepare the concept maps. According to results of the study, it is seen that pre-service teachers mostly repeated “citizenship” for social studies, and “History” for social sciences. Also, History, skills, society-socialization, values, social participation, Geography and culture were given for both of two concepts. It can be claimed that pre-service teachers have much more conceptual information about social studies, and much more misconception about social sciences.