Primary School Education Pre-Service Teachers' Views about the Application of Storyline Method in Social Studies Teaching

Abstract

Article History: Received 07.06.2012 Received in revised form 12.08.2012 Accepted 19.08.2012 Available online 10.08.2012 Social Studies is a study field that combines social and humanities in order to develop citizenship competence. Social studies should be a student-centered lesson far from rote learning where students seek and find or generate information to solve problems by using their creativity freely. Rather than giving the solutions, which students never think of to the problems, the storyline method raises problems in order students find solutions with their own questioning. Teachers and students produce ideas together. This approach is experimental and constructivist in essence. By forming groups of 8 pre-service teachers, the current study was applied storyline method for 10 weeks in social studies teaching lesson to the3rd graders of primary school education department. Students’ views were taken for 8 weeks with the use of focus group discussion after the practice. In the study, qualitative research method and phenomenological method were used. © 2012 IOJES. All rights reserved