Investigation of in terms various variabilities of entrepreneurship levels of social studies teacher candidates

This study aims to determinate the entrepreneurship levels of the students of the Department of Social Sciences Education of Amasya University in the academic year of 2017-2018 and to investigate these levels according to the variables of gender, age level, class level, father occupation, maternity occupation, family monthly income level and geographical region where the country is located. Quantitative research method was used in the research. The model of the research is a descriptive scanning model. In order to determine the entrepreneurship levels of the candidate teachers, a Student Entrepreneurship Scale composed of 36 items, developed by Yılmaz and Sünbül (2009), was used. The scale was applied to 240 students who were the whole of the universe by using the full census sampling method and 175 students were obtained on the basis of volunteerism and validity. The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS21 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) package program. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation values were calculated for descriptive statistical analyzes for students participating in the research. Independent groups t-test and one way analysis of variance were performed in accordance with the sub-problems of the research in the analysis process. At the end of the research, social studies teacher candidates' entrepreneurship skills are at the level of high entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship levels of the participants were statistically significant difference by gender and father's occupation. According to the results obtained from the research, it has been suggested that in case of entrepreneurship education in the education faculties, it is possible to add entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to the students and to encourage entrepreneurship by organizing work, idea or project competitions which only education faculty students can participate.