Educational reform in Turkey
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Date
2007-03Source Title
International Journal of Educational Development
Print ISSN
0738-0593
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
27
Issue
2
Pages
129 - 137
Language
English
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Abstract
There are a number of reform initiatives underway in Turkey but some of these, which are concerned with curricular and
structural changes, have encountered serious difficulties. This paper begins with a brief summary of school effectiveness
and school improvement research guiding many educational reforms. It then gives some information about school
demographics in Turkey, and the country’s performance in some international benchmarking studies. It continues with the
shifts introduced as a result of recent curricular reorganisation in Turkey and, subsequently, with various issues related to
their implications. Finally, the efforts to legislate some structural changes and the major controversies arising are
presented.
Keywords
Educational reformCurriculum
Educational policy
School effectiveness
School improvement
Comparative education