Abstract
This study aims to exhibit the current situation of migrant, refugee, asylum-seekers concepts in Social Studies Curriculum (2018) in Turkey in detail. This study, in which qualitative research method was applied, used document review for the detailed examination of the social studies curriculum. It referred to descriptive analysis technique in the analysis of the data obtained. The results of the research show that the concepts of migrant, refugee, asylum-seekers are not included in the social studies curriculum at all. The six criteria discussed (special purposes, basic skills, values, achievements of the social studies curriculum, issues to be considered in the implementation of the curriculum, the structure & learning areas of the curriculum), partially found a place directly or indirectly in the curriculum. However, there is a disproportionate distribution as seen in the findings. While 11 out of 18 values in the values section, 4 out of 7 learning areas can be associated with the concepts of migrant, refugee, asylum-seekers in a direct or indirect fashion, merely 15 out of 27 skills and only 15 out of 131 total achievements are associated with these concepts. Thereupon, the study reveals that the number of items, particularly the number of achievements, is insufficient in terms of concepts discussed whilst schools treat courses subject and achievement centered. In this respect, the researcher suggests that the distribution rates of migrant, refugee, asylum-seekers concepts should be more balanced in the curriculum amongst the criteria discussed in the study. A learning area for inclusive education should be created that includes all disadvantaged individuals directly. Accordingly, special purposes, issues to be considered in the implementation of the program, values, skills and achievements should be updated in the social studies curriculum (2018).
Highlights
Throughout history, people have left their homeland and searched for a reliable place to survive due to reasons such as war, armed conflict, discrimination, and persecution
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (2018) defines a migrant as someone who migrates from one place to another, generally in search of better economic opportunities on a voluntary basis, while a refugee as “someone who is a citizen of a country or stateless but unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin or state of residence and unable to benefit from their country's protection owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion” (UNHCR, 1951)
Findings the current situation of migrant, refugee, asylum-seekers concepts in the social studies curriculum is discussed in detail
Summary
Throughout history, people have left their homeland and searched for a reliable place to survive due to reasons such as war, armed conflict, discrimination, and persecution 1995; Ünal, 2014; Apak, 2014) These people, whose main purpose is to find a safe living space, are identified as migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers according to the criteria set out in the 1951 Geneva Convention adopted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It would not be wrong to define the asylum-seekers as the status used until the refugee status is approved (UNHCR, 1951; Körükmez & Südaş, 2015; UNHCR, 2018)
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