Yüksek Öğretim ve Yaygın Eğitim İşbirliği: Annemin Masalı

Abstract

The guiding principal of this research was shaped by “Mother University”, a civil society project,which was conducted by Yildiz Technical University and City & Thought Center of Esenler Municipality, in order to aim to provide non-formal education opportunity to the mothers who had beenobliged to suspend their formal education. The mothers were taught with nine modules such as art,health, media, communication, etc. at the university – formal education environment. In this framework of the practices of non-formal education, the mothers were asked to write their own talesin order to raise their awareness on their own creative and analytic thinking styles, capability ofself-expression, self-learning and social values. Thus, the tale study would become an educationaloutcome through adding experiences to module lectures. The mothers were observed during thewhole educational period; their classroom performances were evaluated and consequently, twentyfive tales were approved to be publish with regard to their narrative coherence and educationalmessage. After the tales were examined with the inductive thematic analysis method, the motherswere interviewed orally and in written about the process of writing tales. The themes received fromthe content were compared with the results of the interviews with the help of inductive themativanalysis. Thus, the contribution of non-formal education was evaluated in writing process of the tales