A study on social studies teacher candidates' views on museums and museum education

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of Social Studies Teacher Candidates on museums and museum education. The study group of the research consisted of social studies teacher candidates studying in the Undergraduate Program of Social Studies Teaching in Van Yuzuncu Yıl University during the 2018-2019 academic year. The study group consisted of 209 teacher candidates totally. In this research, which was conducted with the survey model, open-ended questionnaires were used as a data collection tool. The data gathered through the student's interviews were analyzed by applying descriptive analysis method. When the research results are evaluated in general, ıt is seen that; the majority of teacher candidates in the study group did not go to the museum in their lives; they did not take a lesson/course/seminar related to museum education at school; where they believe that the museum has an important place in education in terms of learning onsite, seeing real ruins of the history and giving information about the past; they believe the necessity of making plan, when they appointed as a teacher.