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Aim of science course is to introduce students themselves, their environment and provide them basic living and thinking skills. In this connection science course encounters students with problems related to their daily life, help them to realize and inquire these problems, provides possibilities for solution of these problems and support them in synchronization with environment. Therefore, general aims of science education curriculums are training self confident, cooperative, decisive students who have problem solving skills, inquiry learning skills, effective communication skills and sustainable development awareness. One of skills introduced in 2013 Science Education Program is entrepreneurship.  Students’ perception of entrepreneurship is one of the main components of Turkish Science Education Program and it’s expected to be promoted in science course. In addition, objectives based on entrepreneurship perception consist in science textbooks. Therefore, science teachers should have a strong background and self efficacy about entrepreneurship skills and perception in order to promote in classroom and encourage their students. In this case, considering that teachers train students who have entrepreneurship perception, they should have entrepreneurship perception themselves and graduate from teacher training institutes with proper background. In these terms, it’s important to promote pre-service science teachers’ entrepreneurship perception in teacher training institutes. Therefore, aim of this study is to examine pre-service science teachers’ views towards entrepreneurship.

Survey method used in this research. Qualitative data will be gathered with semi-structured interview. Semi-structured interviews will be done with pre-service science teachers about socio-scientific issues. After interview, gathered data will be analyzed with content analysis.

Keywords: Science education, pre-service science teachers, entrepreneurship