scholarly journals Decentralization as an Educational Planning Strategy in Turkish Education System

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Betül Balkar ◽  
Mahinur Gözde Kasurka
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Regional Inequalities ◽  
Development Data ◽  
Decentralization Policy ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Turkish Education

<p>The aim of this study is to examine the policies of decentralization which guide the planning<br />of Turkish education system and which are involved in Development Plans of Turkey. The<br />sample of study is composed of ten development plans for 5 years which have been published<br />between the year of 1963 and 2014. Development plans were reached upon the website of<br />Ministry of Development. Data of the study were collected via document review and were<br />analyzed by using content analysis. As a result of the analysis of education policies in<br />development plans, it cannot be said that there is a decentralization policy which is adopted in<br />planning the Turkish Education System. In development plans, there are only objectives and<br />strategies that point out possible decentralization policies. Decentralization policies in<br />development plans are determined to be under the category of deconcentration and delegation<br />in terms of extent of execution. Based on the results of the study, it is suggested that<br />developing and executing decentralization policies should take more place in the plans for<br />Turkish Education System in order to be able to meet educational needs which result from<br />regional inequalities. The extent of decentralization should be decided by taking into<br />consideration the need that decentralization would respond rather than the delegated and<br />deconcentrated units.</p>

Discussions on education policies in media: Media representations of education activists in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
A Fulya Şen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
The Media

This study examines the media representations of Turkey's educational labour union, Eğitim-Sen. In so doing, it analyses the news coverage of the protests of Eğitim-Sen against the education policies of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, structured by an Islamist political perspective. In this study, the content analysis has been carried out in order to investigate the attitude of the news media towards the education activism, as well as in order to take in issues of meaning and context. This analysis involves the online newspaper debates pertaining to the 13 February 2015 strike action of Eğitim-Sen, and the new curriculum announced in July 2017. This study aims to reveal how the struggles of Eğitim-Sen against the Islamification of the education system in Turkey are represented in the media, how Turkish media attempts to generate powerful voices, as well as how the media ignores the voices of dissidents. It has been concluded that Eğitim-Sen is underrepresented in the mainstream news media.

scholarly journals What Kind of Person Should an Education System Raise? A Survey of Teachers’ Views in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soner Dogan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Education System ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
City Centre ◽  
School Type ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Turkish Education

This study aims to find answers to the question: What kind of person should the Turkish education system raise? To evaluate the participants’ responses thoroughly, the phenomenology method has been used. The study group includes 185 teachers and school administrators working in Sivas city centre. To reach out to more participants, the data have been obtained by a survey developed by the researcher. Four categories, academic, social, individual, and ethical, have been identified as a result of data analysed with content analysis. The data have been presented according to the variables of school type and positions. According to the findings, it has been found out that teachers’ order of preference about the kind of person to be raised is individual, academic, ethical, and social characteristics;administrators’ order of preference is academic, individual, ethical, and social characteristics. Sentences have been formed about the kind of a person to be raised by the variables of school types and positions in the study. In this regard, considering participants’ priorities, common phrases have been brought out to be ‘having critical thinking, ethical, national and moral values, and love of country and nation’.

scholarly journals Inuit education in Alberta and Nunavik (Canada)

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 173-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Daveluy
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Education System ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Curriculum Content ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Administrative Control ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
French And English

During the reorganisation of education in Nunavut that led to the passing of Bill 21 in 2009, reliance on curricula developed in other parts of Canada was mentioned and sometimes perceived as problematic. In this article, I describe how Inuit concerns have recently been integrated into education policies and programming developed by the Alberta government. To examine educational issues that concern Inuit students at southern schools, I have compared Alberta’s efforts and activities with those of the Kativik School Board in Nunavik (Northern Quebec) where the education system is trilingual with programs in Inuktitut, French, and English. The comparison shows how curriculum content, languages of instruction, and administrative control interrelate in the Canadian context. In particular, curricula seem to be more spiritually focused in Western Canada than in Nunavik or Nunavut.

scholarly journals Pendidikan ideal perspektif Tagore dan Ki Hajar Dewantara dalam pembentukan karakter peserta didik

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-181
Author(s):  
Marzuki Marzuki ◽  
Siti Khanifah
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Education And Development ◽  
The Ideal

The research aims to study the thought of Rabindranath Tagore and Ki Hajar Dewantara with the ideal education related in formation of students character. This research is a literature review using content analysis approach. Sources of data in the form of primary data and secondary data on thought of two leaders in education. Data were analyzed qualitatively with the inductive approach. The results showed that 1) Rabindranath Tagore saw education based on freedom and love. Learning approach undertaken by Rabindranath Tagore in the education system is experiential learning; 2) Ki Hajar Dewantara developed a Among system in education which is an effort to advance the development of morality (inner strength), mind (intellect), and physical students; and 3) there is a link between thought of Rabindranath Tagore and thought of Ki Hajar Dewantara on looking at the education and development of ideal education system. 

scholarly journals A Content Analysis Of The Ontario Ministry Of Education's Memorandum PPM No.119: Developing And Implementing Equity And Inclusive Education Policies In Ontario Schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Royer
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Parent Engagement ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Education Policies

Ontario schools have been criticized for maintaining inequitable practices and environments. To combat this inequity, the Ontario Ministry of Education created the PPM No.119: Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2009). In this study, I undertake a content analysis of the policy focusing on the words ‘race’ and ‘parents’ in order to explore whether or not racialized children and families, specifically the Black community, may benefit from this policy. Critical Race Theory and a parent engagement framework guided my analysis. The results indicated that this policy may actually exclude students and families, particularly Black students and families, as opposed to creating more equitable and inclusive opportunities. Recommendations are made for promoting anti-racist practices by early childhood educators and teachers and working toward ensuring the accountability of administrators.

scholarly journals Rationales for First Nations Run Schools in Ontario : a Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiona Murray
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Education System ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Learner Outcomes ◽  
Education Improvement ◽  
Latent Content

The purpose of this research study was to address the question: how do First Nations leaders and scholars articulate the rationales for First Nations run schools in Ontario? Documents were collected from two First Nations websites, Assembly of First Nations and Chiefs of Ontario, and subjected to a manifest and latent content analysis. Three themes representing rationales emerged from the findings: self-governance over education, improvement of socio-economic conditions and sustainability. An underlying rationale that linked the three themes indicated that First Nations need recognition of self-government in order to control their education system, improve its quality and enhance learner outcomes.

scholarly journals History education in Turkmenistan from Soviet Turkmenistan to the independent republicSovyet Türkmenistanı’ndan bağımsız devlete Türkmenistan’da tarih öğretimi

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Refik Turan
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
History Education ◽  
New Period ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
Cult Of Personality ◽  
History Of ◽  
The New Period ◽  
Document Review ◽  
History Classes ◽  
Made In

In this study carried out to put forward the general characteristics of the history education system implemented in Turkmenistan during the USSR period and the changes made in the history education system after Turkmenistan had declared its independence, the screening model and document review methods were benefited from. As result of the studies carried out on the curriculums and textbooks, it was understood that, as in other republics during the USSR period, there were two kinds of history classes in Turkmenistan being the General History and the History of USRR, and intense political-ideological guidance and various forms of the misuse of history were present in the curriculums and textbooks used during this period. In this period when topics related to the Turkmen history were only present in the scope of the USSR History and were so limited, many historical facts, primarily the Russian occupation of Turkmenistan, were distorted. After Turkmenistan had declared its independence on 27 October 1991, it implemented policies with the aim to get rid of the cultural and ideological influence of the USSR and build the national identity of the Turkmen nation. In this period, the History of Turkmenistan course began to be taught instead of the History of the USSR, and the course of the General History taught in the period of the USSR was taught by reorganising its content and weekly class hours. In this period when the ideological approach present in the history education in the USSR period was given up, the national history education was prioritised and it was attempted to pay regard to nationality-universality, knowledge-skill and value balances in the history education. Despite all these changes, it can be said that the understanding of the homeland history in the new period which took the geographical borders of the USSR period as a basis, historical periodization and the weight of the cult of personality continued to a certain extent in textbooks.   ÖzetTürkmenistan’da SSCB döneminde uygulanan tarih öğretim sisteminin genel özellikleri ile Türkmenistan’ın bağımsızlığını ilan etmesinden sonra tarih öğretim sisteminde gerçekleştirilen değişiklikleri ortaya koymak amacıyla gerçekleştirilen bu araştırmada  tarama modeli ve doküman incelemesi yöntemlerinden yararlanılmıştır. Öğretim programları ve ders kitapları üzerinde yapılan çalışmalar sonucu SSCB döneminde diğer cumhuriyetlerde olduğu gibi Türkmenistan’da da Umumi Tarih ve SSCB Tarihi isimleriyle iki çeşit tarih dersi okutulduğu, bu dönemde kullanılan öğretim programı ve ders kitaplarında yoğun siyasi-ideolojik yönlendirmelerin ve çeşitli tarihin kötüye kullanım biçimlerinin mevcut olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Türkmen tarihiyle ilgili konulara ancak SSCB Tarihi dersi kapsamında ve çok sınırlı olarak yer verilen bu dönemde başta Rusya’nın Türkmenistan’ı işgali konusu olmak üzere birçok tarihsel gerçeklik çarpıtılmıştır. Türkmenistan’ın 27 Ekim 1991 tarihinde bağımsızlığını ilan etmesinden sonra SSCB’nin kültürel ve ideolojik etkisinden kurtulmaya ve Türkmen ulusal kimliği inşa etmeye yönelik politikalar uygulamıştır. Bu dönemde SSCB Tarihi dersi kaldırılarak yerine Türkmenistan Tarihi dersi okutulmaya başlanmış, SSCB döneminde okutulan Umumi Tarih dersinin de içerikleri ve haftalık ders saati miktarları yeniden düzenlenerek okutulmuştur. SSCB döneminin tarih öğretimine olan ideolojik yaklaşımından vazgeçilen bu dönemde ulusal tarihin öğretimi ön plana alınmış ve tarih öğretiminde ulusallık-evrensellik, bilgi-beceri ve değer dengeleri gözetilmeye çalışılmıştır. Tüm bu değişikliklere rağmen yeni dönemde SSCB döneminin coğrafi sınırları temel alan vatan tarihi anlayışı, tarihsel dönemselleştirme ve ders kitaplarındaki kişi kültü ağırlığının belli ölçülerde devam ettiği söylenebilir.  

scholarly journals Experiences of Graduate Students in Turkish Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Nurşat Bi̇çer ◽  
Yakup Alan ◽  
Fatih Can
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Technological Opportunities ◽  
Turkish Education

The aim of this study is to reveal the experiences of graduate students in the field of Turkish education during the pandemic process. Phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. The sample of the research consists of graduate and doctoral students studying at different universities. Easily accessible case sampling was used to determine the study group. The data of the study were collected with the interview guide prepared by the researchers and given the final shape after the expert opinion was taken. The study group was reached by using internet tools (Zoom) and data were collected. The content analysis of data was made. As a result of the research, it was seen that during the pandemic process graduate students experienced advantages such as increased technological opportunities, accessing to online materials easily, time saving and efficient studying opportunities. However, disadvantages such as inefficient lessons, lack of interaction, inability to focus on lessons, data collection problems, and inability to benefit from libraries were also revealed as problems experienced by graduate students. Students expect technological opportunities to continue, but to ensure normalization in some issues that cannot be resolved with these opportunities. They think that face-to-face education is more qualified, communication is better, and research can be done more effectively.

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