Community Service Practices: Connecting Active Citizenship and Preservice Teacher Education

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Akın Sabuncu S.

PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, vol.0, no.53, pp.21-59, 2021 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 0 Issue: 53
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.9779/pauefd.764545
  • Journal Name: PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.21-59
  • Keywords: community service practices, active citizenship education, teacher candidates, teacher educators, case study, HUMAN-RIGHTS EDUCATION, DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP, TURKEY, PARTICIPATION, CONSTRUCTIONS, PERCEPTIONS, ENGAGEMENT, VIEWS, KIND
  • TED University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This study aims to examine the role of community service practices in developing teacher candidates' active citizenship characteristics based on the perspectives of preservice teachers and teacher educators. Designed as a case study, the study includes 39 teacher candidates and three teacher educators selected through criterion sampling strategy. The data were collected through 10 focus group interviews with the teacher candidates, and three individual interviews with the teacher educators conducted semi-structured and face-to-face. Based on the results of the study, both groups of participants thought that engaging in community service practices was conducive to foster prospective teachers' (1) civic knowledge and awareness concerning active citizenship, (2) civic skills concerning active citizenship, (3) civic attitudes and values concerning active citizenship, and (4) self-concept and self-identity concerning active citizenship, as well as it had profound effects on (5) bridging the teacher candidates' civic and professional identities concerning active citizenship.