Abstract

The study aimed to examine the opinions of Social Studies Teachers, teacher candidates, middle school students and their parent comparatively on values education in Social Studies Lesson. This study was performed with descriptive survey model, data were received with open-ended questionnaires prepared by researchers and analysed by using deductive approach. According to teachers, students and parents, the main values are respect, love, honesty, helpfulness and tolerance thought that this values are acquired family. According to all participants, values learned in school are responsibility and sensibility. Parents usually expect to gain value supporting academic success from the school. All participants think that teacher should role-model and with his/her life and behaviour should be an example to students as value acquisition method. Although teachers state that we don’t use inculcation approach, according to the observations of teacher candidates, they prefer the most this approach. The fact remains that inculcation approach is among methods that students and their parents expect. As a result, parent involvement and the activity of students is important in value education. Expanding the number of participants and to enrich type of participants is recommended.

Key words: Social Studies Lesson, Values Education, Social Studies Teacher, Middle School Students