Analysing the Perceptions of Education Faculty Students on Community Service-Learning

This is a descriptive survey study with a quantitative method to determine the perceptions of students of the Faculty of Education on the community service practices whether there is a significant difference between the perception levels. The study consists of students at Faculty of Education in the 2014-2015 academic year and participated in the community service. In this purpose, the purposeful and criterion sampling methods were used to determine the study group s perceptions. In this sampling, the criterion is that 497 students of faculty of education who participated in this course. The “Community Service Activities Scale” and “Demographic Information Form” were used to collect the data. The scale consists of 33 items and demographic information. The sub-dimensions are “Thinking process and skills”, “Awareness” and “Benefit”. Findings are that there is no significant difference in terms of their departments, gender, type of education, type of high school they graduate, level of parental education, place where they spend most of their life and participation in community service practice during university education while there is a significant difference in the total scores of THU according to the students participation in THU activities before their undergraduate studies.