SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN BY PAIRING “COMMUNITY SERVICES COURSE” WITH “MONE MOBİLE PRESCHOOL PROJECT”: PEÇENEK VILLAGE EXAMPLE

In this research, with the purpose of teacher candidates to be able to make voluntary andbeneficial studies for the society, and under the “Community Service Practices” course of theundergraduate programme in preschool teaching, we have collaborated with Hayriye AndiçenIndependent Preschool affiliated with the MONE which is implementing the Mobile PreschoolProject. In the spring semester with the students who have taken the class, the necessarypreparation for the educational activities was completed during the theoretical part of thecourse. And during the implementation part of the course, educational activities were carriedon by going to the Peçenek Village of Sincan where the Mobile Preschool was then served.With this research, the aim is to determine if the given education supports the development ofthe children. Study group of the research is consisted of 8 children who are continuing theireducation in the Mobile Preschool which is affiliated with the Hayriye Andiçen IndependentPreschool that is in the Peçenek Village. In the research, single grouped pretest-post test patternissued among the experimental patterns. At the end of the research, a positive development isobserved in all developmental areas of the children who were benefitted from the educationalactivities.