Education System In Turkey Research Articles

Comparative Evaluation of Media Literacy Course: The Case of Turkey

In recent years, media literacy, as the result of unavoidable rapidly evolving technology, emerges as an issue that should be considered. Cause of the adult and children remain under the influence of early intensive of media messages, parents and educators are led to take measures against of the media messages. Today, it is not possible tos tay completely away from the media. Reading media messages and determine the useful content regarded as a correct behavior. Choosing the correct information in the media as the emergence of the information density, which is now in the position of issuing content viewer / listener / is an extremely important point for publishers. The aim of the this study is to reveal the comporative study of media literacy course and its implementation style which is starting in Turkey and yet close to take place in the curriculum of the past elemantry school between the courses in United States and schools in Europe. In this context, domestic and foreign sources written about media literacy were utilized. Concrete information on applications in Turkey in order to achieve the 2006-2007 academic year of the pilot school for the teaching of media literacy course Ankara Cankaya Ahmet Vefik Pasha Primary School was conducted in research. The questions designed to obtain information on the implementation of the course is directed on teacher; the results obtained are used as another source in the study. After the interviews, the mass media in our lives that encompasses all areas and reaching out to different sizes with technological innovation community life, which gained strength in a century that have a say in the media literacy traditional approach seen in the education system in Turkey is possible to say that its impact in the course. Especially when you compare it with samples in the world, the need when they need to take more important steps in Turkey's media literacy practices in both gold was drawn DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s5p80

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With a notice that was issued by the Ministry of National Education, all the public high schools were gradually converted into Anatolian High School as of 2010. The aim of this research is to determine the criteria of school reputation of Anatolian High schools and how and to what extent the criteria changed after the notice was issued. Qualitative research was conducted in this research. The procedure of data collection is rooted in a maximum variation sampling. Anatolian High schools located in Buca, Ä°zmir, were classified according to students’ placement scores and by dividing these schools according to levels such as upper, low and intermediate, two school principals from each level were interviewed face-to-face. The data were analyzed with the computer programme MAXODA. The findings were edited considering the implementation of converting general high school into Anatolian High School. According to the findings, school reputation is influenced by 7 themes, namely “Being a Preferable School, The Education Quality of the School, Relationships with the Environment, The Adequacy of Financial Resources, The Service Quality of the School, Management Skills and The Effect of the Conversion of Anatolian High Schools.” It was understood that the school reputation of schools that were Anatolian High schools before the notice was issued declined whereas the school reputation of schools that were converted into Anatolian High school with the notice increased. Key words: Schools’ reputation, Anatolian High Schools, Turkey education system, quantitative research.

Current Developments in School Education in Turkey: education 'reforms' and teacher trade union responses

Education 'reforms' have been accelerated in the last decade in Turkey. Teachers, as the main actors of the education system, have developed a variety of responses to the reforms implemented in the field of education, both individually and collectively. They give directions to the change process in education by means of their trade unions. The unions have played important roles in the generation and implementation of educational policies with the strategies that they have developed. This article aims to analyse current developments in school education in Turkey and teacher trade union responses against the 'reforms'. For this aim, firstly, the general structure of the education system in Turkey will be identified followed by an analysis of the neoliberal policies that are a feature of the Turkish system. Finally, teacher trade unions' attitudes, compliance and resistance towards the 'education reforms' will be addressed in the context of the local dynamics of Turkey.

Social Studies Teachers’ Perspective of Religion Education in Turkey

Article History: Received 03.08.2014 Received in revised form 28.09.2014 Accepted 17.10.2014 Available online 01.03.2015 The dispute over religion education within the education system in Turkey is about a process of compulsory and elective religion classes although it emerged upon exclusion from school curricula. The increasing democratization of society in Turkey led to the critique of society’s own religious values and some reorganization. Social change brings along particular perspectives and innovations. Religion education, with the purpose of positively influencing man’s life and making people happy as long as they live, by establishing a life style based on the individual’s powers of belief, contributes in co-existence of various religious values in the society and in prevention of religious class differences to occur. The current research aims to define and evaluate social studies teachers’ views of religion education in middle schools. For this purpose, data from social studies teachers employed in various middle schools in Aydin, Nevsehir, Elazig, Bingol, Mardin, Diyarbakir, and Siirt were obtained through a semi-structured interview, a qualitative research method. The obtained data were analyzed with a qualitative data analysis technique. Research results showed that social studies teachers’ views on religion education varied and this variation stemmed from different factors involved in different processes within religion education. © 2016 IOJES. All rights reserved

US Influence On The Education System In Turkey: An Analysis Of Reports By American Education Specialists

This study aimed to analyse reports prepared by American education specialists visiting Turkey from the Proclamation of the Republic till the end of the 1950s to inspect Turkeys education system. In accordance with this purpose, first, the foreign specialists reports are briefly introduced chronologically and then American specialist reports are analysed. This study examined reports prepared by J. Dewey (1924), Beryl Parker (1934), the committee under the presidency of E. Walter Kemmerer (1933-1934), W. Dickerman (1951), John Rufi (1951), R. J. Maaske (1953), and M. Costat (1955). These seven reports were selected for analysis as they were published by the Ministry of National Education. Since the main source of data for the study was the reports of American specialists, document analysis - a qualitative research method - was employed. It is important to check the originality of the written sources acquired for document analysis. As the Ministry published all the reports as a book, they qualify as original, first-hand sources. Secondary data sources were reviews or explanatory studies on Turkeys education history and foreign specialist reports. The study ascertained that the reports prepared by American specialists largely corresponded; the observations and recommendations in the reports essentially focused on the same issues. Based on these similarities, it can be inferred that all the specialists stayed informed of each other and correctly identified the problems in the Turkish education system.

The examination of relationships between emotional intelligence levels and creativity levels of pre-service teachers in the teaching-learning process and environments

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence levels and creativity levels of pre-service teachers in the process of constructing educational system in Turkey. In the study, mixed methods which include qualitative and quantitative data were used. The study was done in 2011-2012 academic year with the participation of the students of Muğla University, Faculty of Education, Departments of Elementary Science Teaching, Elementary School Teaching, Pre-School Teaching, Elementary Social Sciences Teaching, Turkish Language Teaching and English Language Teaching. The questionnaire which was adapted to Turkish language by Tatar et al. (2011) "Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire" was used to determine the pre-service teachers' emotional intelligence levels. Additionally, the questionnaire which was adapted to Turkish language by Aksoy (2004) "How Creative Are You?" was used to determine the pre-service teachers' creativity levels. And "Personal Data Form" was used to collect personal data of the pre-service teachers. For the collection of qualitative data, semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers, and "Personal Data Form" were used to. In order to analyze the quantitative data, "t test" and one-way anova were used. Both critical and interpretive analysis techniques were applied together in the analysis of the qualitative data. According to results of the study, it was determined that emotional intelligence levels of pre-service teachers vary significantly based on gender; yet, no significant difference based on grade level and department was observed. Additionally, it was determined that creativity levels of pre-service teachers vary significantly depending on department, but no significant difference is observed based on gender and grade level. And finally, it was determined that there was positive and significant relationship at a low level between emotional intelligence levels and creativity levels of pre-service teachers.

New Education System in Turkey (4 +4 +4): A Critical Outlook

Education systems, which are one of the factors determining development levels of countries in many fields such as social, economic, scientific and technologic, etc., sometimes are subject to various changes in order to keep up with the requirements of the age, remain effective and improve themselves. Various changes have been made in Turkey recently with the purpose of making national education system more qualified and catching up with the standards of developed countries. With “Primary Education Law no 6287” adopted on 30 March 2012, a radical decision is made in our education system and put into practice. This law, which is known by public as 4+4+4 and made a sudden change in Turkish education system, has brought along many discussions. In this study, it is aimed that the impacts of 4+4+4 education system, which is created with the purpose of increasing the period of compulsory education in Turkey to the average of EU and OECD countries and providing a more qualified education environment to the students, are analysed since the time it has come up for the first time. Literature review method is used in the research and the reviews covered in the media, texts published by universities, unions and various organisations and articles reflecting the opinions of the domain experts regarding the new education system are analysed. This data is evaluated and a critical perspective is developed about the effectiveness of the 4+4+4 system.

The Basque Bilingual Education System: A Model for a Kurdish Bilingual Education System in Turkey

The main target of the study is to demonstrate how the Basque bilingual education system in the Basque Country of Spain works, and how it may be used as comparative analysis of a possible bilingual system for the Kurdish population in Turkey. Basque bilingual education models used where minority languages are prominent will be considered, taking into account their historical and political contexts. This study is also to discuss the benefits of Basque Country’s bilingual education models in Turkey and what they can offer in regard to issues related to the lives of Kurds in the country. The overall design of this study uses a qualitative method consisting of data collection through a survey used to get a rich data set that explains the issues surrounding bilingual education in the Basque region. This survey involved 26 participants from K-12 teachers and scholars in the Basque Country. From the survey, the participants’ answers were gathered and reviewed. Emergent themes in the survey were coded. Results indicate that currently, the Basque Country in Spain has a reputable ongoing bilingual education system. Over the last decade, the Basque region has established a model for bilingual education that offers multiple options for the linguistic study of the Basque language. Thus, as the Basque Region has an advanced and institutionalized bilingual education system, it is logical to study how minority language issues were addressed previously so it may inform the Kurdish situation.

The Investigation of Health Education in the Activities of Social Studies in Compliance and Preparatory Studies

Health education is a well-established and continuously science as humanity. Foundations of health education as in other areas of an individual are taking, especially at primary level. Beginning of the new compulsory education system in Turkey, primary education has brought compliance and preparatory process. From a variety of information related to health education activities in compliance and preparatory process in Social Studies found. However, this information is sufficient and whether it is included in a balanced way in terms of the health education is an important point. This information supports Social Studies or does not support the transition process and what to give to the students are among the main problems. In this context, study aims to describe the status of the existing health education activities in compliance and preparatory process in Social Studies. All kinds of information about the student's mind to be configured to health in the future will be based on the Social Studies course. The data will be analyzed using the method of study Information Network Technique. Therefore, firstly in the fields of Social Studies preparatory process will be determined health information. Then, the compliance and preparatory process adaptation will be related to health information network. The findings of this Knowledge Network will be compared with the first Class of Social Studies Information Network. This study by presenting the current state of knowledge about health education in the process of adaptation of whether or not the basic tips will give you the next stage of Social Studies.

Rethinking Turkish Music Schools’ Administrative Model in the Context of Music Education Culture: Is there a Need for an Educational Leadership Model?

Today's educational systems in the developed countries change their traditional way towards the more influential trends which focuses the big picture of education. Through those new challenges in education, most countries are implementing various educational leadership models in order to increase the performance of the whole system. The purpose of this study was to (1) determine the drawbacks of outdated sides of the Turkish music education system and bureaucratic administrative model, (2) emphasizing the importance of implementing an updated leadership model for music education system in Turkey. Results showed that, both students and faculty members indicated specific issues of current educational and administrative models, they also stated their willingness and need for a new cultural-based educational and leadership approaches.

Rethinking Decentralization in Education in terms of Administrative Problems

The general purpose of this study is to thoroughly examine decentralization in education according to the literature and previous research, and to discuss the applicability of educational decentralization practices in Turkey. The literature was reviewed for the study and findings reported. It has been observed that decentralization in education practices were realized in many countries after the 1980’s. It is obvious that the educational system in Turkey has difficulty in meeting the needs, and encounters many problems due to its present centralist state. Educational decentralization can provide effective solutions for stakeholder engagement, educational financing and for problems in decision making and operation within the education system. However, the present state of local governments, the legal framework, geographical, cultural and social features indicate that Turkey’s conditions are not ready for decentralization in education. A decentralization model realized in the long run according to Turkey’s conditions, and as a result of a social consensus, can help resolve the problems of the Turkish education system.

Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

This paper aims to provide the recent developments on the supplementary education system in Turkey. The national examinations for advancing to higher levels of schooling are believed to fuel the demand for Supplementary Education Centers (SEC). Further, we aim to understand the distribution of the SECs and of the secondary schools across the provinces of Turkey in order to evaluate the spacial equity considerations.The evolution of the SECs and of the secondary schools over time are described and compared. The provincial distribution of the SECs, secondary schools and the high school age population are compared. The characteristics of these distributions are evaluated to inform the about spatial equity issues. The distribution of high school age population that attend secondary schools and the distribution of the secondary school students that attend SECs across the provinces are compared. The evidence points out to significant provincial variations in various characteristics of SECs and the secondary schools. The distribution of the SECs is more unequal than that of the secondary schools. The provinces located mostly in the east and south east of the country have lower quality SECs and secondary schools. Further, the SEC participation among the secondary school students and the secondary school participation among the relevant age group are lower in some of the provinces indicating major disadvantages. The review of the most recent developments about the SECs, examination and comparison of provincial distributions of the SECs and of the secondary schools are novelties in this paper.

Scientific collaboration network of Turkey

Networking via co-authorship is an important area of research and used in many fields such as ranking of the universities/departments. Studying on the data supplied by the Web of Science, we constructed a structural database that defines the scientific collaboration network of the authors from Turkey, based on the publications between 1980 and 2010. To uncover the evolution and structure of this complex network by scientific means, we executed some empirical measurements. The Turkish scientific collaboration network is in an accelerating phase in growth, highly governed by the national policies aiming to develop a competitive higher education system in Turkey. As our results suggest the authors tend to make more number of collaborations in their studies over the years. The results also showed that, node separation of the network slightly converges about 4, consistent with the small world phenomenon. Together with this key indicator, the high clustering coefficient, (which is about 0.75) reveals that our network is strongly interconnected. Another quantity of major interest about such networks is, “the degree distribution”. It has a power-law tail that defines the network as scale-free. Along with the final values, the time evolutions of the above-mentioned parameters are presented in detail with this work. In a good agreement with the recent studies, our network yields some significant differences especially in growing rate, clustering properties and node separation. In contrast with the recent studies, we also showed that preferring to attach popular nodes result with being a more popular node in the future.

Değişen üniversite-sanayi işbirliğinde üniversite örgütlenmesi

Yükseköğretim sisteminin yeniden yapılandırılması Türkiye’deki en hararetli tartışma konularından birisidir. Pek çok üniversite bu konudaki görüşlerini, genel yapılanmanın ne şekilde olması gerektiği konusunda ayrıntılı bilgiler içeren raporlar vasıtasıyla açıklamışlardır. Bu makale geleceğin üniversite örgütlenmesine üniversite-sanayi ilişkileri özelinde yaklaşmaktadır. Teknolojik gelişme ve küreselleşme hem üniversitenin hem de sanayinin işleyişinde köklü değişikliklere neden olmaktadır. Bu ortamda üniversite örgütlenmesi nasıl olmalıdır? Bu makalede yükseköğretim sisteminin yeniden yapılandırılması konusundaki tartışmalara katkısı olacağını düşündüğümüz önerilerde bulunarak bu soruya yanıt aranmaktadır.

Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Purpose: This paper aims to provide the recent developments on the supplementary education system in Turkey. The national examinations for advancing to higher levels of schooling are believed to fuel the demand for Supplementary Education Centers (SEC). Further, we aim to understand the distribution of the SECs and of the secondary schools across the provinces of Turkey in order to evaluate the spacial equity considerations. Design/Methodology/Approach: The evolution of the SECs and of the secondary schools over time are described and compared. The provincial distribution of the SECs, secondary schools and the high school age population are compared. The characteristics of these distributions are evaluated to inform the about spatial equity issues. The distribution of high school age population that attend secondary schools and the distribution of the secondary school students that attend SECs across the provinces are compared. Findings: The evidence points out to significant provincial variations in various characteristics of SECs and the secondary schools. The distribution of the SECs is more unequal than that of the secondary schools. The provinces located mostly in the east and south east of the country have lower quality SECs and secondary schools. Further, the SEC participation among the secondary school students and the secondary school participation among the relevant age group are lower in some of the provinces indicating major disadvantages. Originality/Value: The review of the most recent developments about the SECs, examination and comparison of provincial distributions of the SECs and of the secondary schools are novelties in this paper.

Student Retention in Higher Education in Turkey: A Qualitative Study

The purpose of this article is to investigate student perceptions of college departure in three state universities in Turkey. Since the beginning of the 1990s, higher Education System in Turkey went through a massification of higher education. The rapid growth brought enrollment and dropout issues in the system. A total of 58 participants were included in the qualitative study. Of the 58 participants, 35 students were later enrolled at various other programs. Twenty-three students did not drop out. Results indicated that student retention has been an uncharted territory in Turkey. High levels of dropouts lead to inefficiencies in the higher education system.

Türk ve Alman Eğitim Sistemlerinde Yükseköğretime Geçiş Süreci

Problem statement: The process of access to the tertiary education in Turkey has always been an issue of debate and a criticism. The secondary education system becomes less important for the pupils due to the nature of the university entrance examinations. Purpose of study: The present study aims at providing a comparative analysis of the educational systems in Turkey and Germany so as to offer a refreshing approach to the problematic situation in Turkey. Methods: The study is based on a comparative analysis of two different educational systems. To actualize this aim, regulations and current applications of two countries were analyzed in parallel with the latest organizational and structural reforms in both Turkey and Germany. Findings and Results: The study has revealed that different phases of the educational system in Turkey, such as secondary and tertiary levels, display a detachment in both content and structure, the results of which seem to have a negative impact on the pupils, teachers and on the society from a broader perspective. Conclusions and Recommendations: The educational model of German, in which vocational education system offers effective programs to get qualified for the various posts in the industrial arena, does not require all the citizens to get a university degree, and this helps reduce the number of pupils awaiting to get accepted to the tertiary education programs.

Innovative and Organized Approaches for Foreign Language Teaching in Turkey

Innovation and organization in language education are more than just a teacher and students in the same classroom, at the same time, using the same materials and current motivation. The importance of innovations is highlighted by the European Label for innovative projects in language teaching and learning. For Turkey and its European Union membership ambitions, education is a prior section, whose standard can be raised by innovations in foreign language education. Heyworth created a formula for innovations [C=(abc)>x], which declares the changes and its costs, hi this article, Heyworth's formula is transferred towards the language education system in Turkey. It will theoretically show advantages and changes and a way how Turkish organizations could change to provide a more sustainable language education. Furthermore, the article will explain already existing approaches and show their advantages and critics. As a conclusion, a theoretical approach for innovations will be given and discussed.

Foreign Language Education Policies in Turkey

Abstract Knowledge of foreign languages and in particular of English is an indispensable part of the modern world. And the only way to bring Turkish up to the level of the communicational requirements of the modern world is through the interaction of knowledge of English with the derivational convenience provided by the Turkish language reform. Therefore, we aimed to have a look at English in the educational system in Turkey by focusing on its past and current status and discussed its future importance as a world language in our country.

Preschool education in Turkey in the European Union process

Turkey, a candidate for full membership in European Union, aims to raise standards of education system to European countries level. Turkish education system in this direction to achieve their goals in all aspects, from preschool to university education is required to make new arrangements. Collecting data related to European countries education systems to determine the status of education system in Turkey will be accurate approach for the work to be done in process of accession to European Union. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the current status of preschool education in Turkey and in European Union member countries. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.