Hizmet Öncesi Öğretmen Eğitiminde Topluma Hizmet Uygulamaları ve Aktif Vatandaşlık

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