<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hatice Zeynep Inan</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">How to improve the society-service course: Early childhood education teacher-candidates’ experiences in the project “Do you want to be a child for one-day?”</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Educational Journal of Living Theories</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ECE teacher-candidates’ experiences in a society-service course</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Early childhood education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Living theory; Action research; Society-service course</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Teacher candidates</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University students</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">212-234</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;
	Creativity and creative thinking are considered important skills for early childhood education [ECE] teacher-candidates to have because they are expected to cultivate those skills of their own students in future. One of the undergraduate courses at the university is the society-service course, which provides teacher-candidates an opportunity to use their creativity and creative thinking skills. In the current research, I look at how a society-service project entitled &amp;ldquo;Do you want to be a child for one day?&amp;rdquo; could be improved to better meet instructional objectives and benefit society. A group of ECE teacher-candidates organized a one-day-long festival in the campus. They aimed to bring university-students and children together, to get university-students to feel like a child for one day and to create stronger bonds between the university and society in general. In the festival preschoolers and university-students had a chance to work together at art, science, math and drama tables and to dance together. The research utilized the living theory methodology for data collection and analysis. Teacher-candidates answered a survey, which focuses specifically on the perspectives of teacher-candidates on improving this project for the future. Based on the results, as the professor of the course, I also made suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;
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