The Curriculum of Social Studies Education and World Citizenship: From Perspective of Prospective Teachers

The primary purpose of the study is to analyze the relationships between "Inclusion of the concept of world citizenship in Social Studies Education Program and Practices (SSEPP) and "world citizenship competency perceptions (WCCP)" of prospective SSE teachers. This is a relational screening study model. " World Citizenship Scale in SSEPP" and "World Citizenship Competency Perception Scale" that were developed by the researchers were used in the study. A total of 375 fourth grade prospective primary education teachers in SSE departments of randomly selected universities to represent seven different geographical regions of Turkey constituted the sampling of the study. The results showed that prospective teachers evaluated SSEPP at moderate level in terms of its dimensions are "objects", "content", "learning situations" and "evaluation" and general of the scale. Likewise, the prospective teachers perceived world citizenship at moderate level. This result points out that even training of world citizen individuals at the SSE program is aimed, this objective couldn't be adequately reflected in selected texts, intra-class activities and evaluation processes. In addition, prospective teachers who graduated from Anatolian high school and their parent graduated from university had higher perception on the world citizenship. Finally, the findings show that there is a positive and weak relationship between SSEPP and WCCP.