HARMONIZATION PROBLEM OF SYRIAN REFUGEE STUDENTS: TURKEY CASE

Abstract

In this study, Syrian refugee students’, who have been living in Turkey since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, adaptation problems and the level of Turkish students’ adoption, are searched in terms of gender and class level. In this context, investigating Republic of Turkey’s education policies, possible problems in future and solutions are aimed with the opinions of the instructors of temporary training centers with the help of semi-structured interview form. The sample group of this study is formed of 700 students from Şanlıurfa Haliliye Rabia Hatun Girl Anatolian Religious High School, Konuklu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Rabia Hatun Religious Temporary Training Center and Milli İrade Temporary Training Center, 211 of them are refugees and 489 of them are Turkish. 173 of these students are male and 527 of them are female. For the qualitative part of the study, 15 temporary education center instructors are viewed from 4 different cities. In this study, Syrian refugee students’ adaptation problems and the level of Turkish students’ adoption are searched in terms of gender and class level and temporary training centers’ instructors’ opinions on these topics and refugees’ educational status are analyzed. Categorical variables are summarized as number and percentage while analyzing the relations. Numeric variables’ normality test was controlled with Kolmogrov Smirnov test. For independent two groups’ comparison, Independent Samples t test was used in situations that numeric variables have normal distribution. In the situation that independent groups are more than two and have normal distribution, One-Way Anova was used. Differences between the groups are analyzed with Tukey test for the comparisons which parametric tests were used. Statistical analyses were done with SPSS and significance level in statistical analyses was considered as 0.05 (p-value). In addition to this, while explaining the variances, the figures like average, standard deviation, and percentiles were represented.