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Item Open Access Curriculum reform in Turkish teacher education: attitudes of teacher educators towards change in an EU candidate nation(Elsevier, 2007-03) Grossman, G. M.; Onkol, P. E.; Sands, M.Educational development is one way through which Turkey enhances progress towards its social goals and prepares itself for European Union membership. A major effort to upgrade the Turkish educational system was made through a multi-phased comprehensive reform of the sector introduced during the 1990s. One part of this reform, perhaps most crucial to the long-term effectiveness of other developments in education, was a transformation of the approach to teacher education. This paper utilizes recently conducted research to assess the nature and extent of that reform as well as identifying the factors which enhanced its effectiveness.Item Open Access Educational reform in Turkey(Elsevier, 2007-03) Aksit, N.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.Item Open Access Restructuring reforms in Turkish teacher education: modernization and development in a dynamic environment(Elsevier, 2008-01) Grossman, G. M.; Sands, M. K.The paper examines the effectiveness of recent reforms in teacher education in Turkey, specifically the restructuring of programmes in university faculties of education. It first, briefly, sets the reforms of the 1990s in an historical context, prior to the 1997 Act which increased the length of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, and the 1998 restructuring of faculties of education. It considers the national need for the restructuring of teacher education and the issues involved. The thrust of the paper is a study of how teacher educators across the country perceive both the changes and their effect on the quality of teacher education, methodology as a discipline, school partnerships, and relationships with the Ministry of National Education. r 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Item Open Access Teacher education accreditation in Turkey: the creation of a culture of quality(Elsevier, 2010-01) Grossman, G. M.; Sands, M.; Brittingham, B.Turkey’s experience in developing and piloting accreditation criteria and national standards for teacher education is examined. The full implementation of an accreditation process for teacher education programs was not completed within the time of the development project. However, the effort to do so encouraged the formation of a ‘quality culture’ in the faculties of education. The paper discusses what took place and analyses the later response of teacher educators to the introduction of accreditation criteria and the way in which they were introduced. Educators largely welcomed national standards and accreditation, but wished to have flexible means of implementation.Item Restricted Toprağın ufkunda yükselen bir eğitim devrimi: İvriz Köy Enstitüsü’nün hikayesi(Bilkent University, 2024) Karadağlı, Ömer Faruk; Gümüş, Hasan; Fidancı, Maide Duru; Karahasanoğlu, Ali Osman; Duman, Coşkuİvriz Köy Enstitüsü, 1941 yılında kurulmuş ve köylere modern eğitim götürme, kendi kendine yetebilen bireyler yetiştirme ve kırsal kesimi kalkındırma amacıyla hizmet vermeye başlamıştır. Köy Enstitülerinin spekülatif tartışmalara konu olması sebebiyle İvriz Köy Enstitüsü de diğerleri gibi pek çok müdahaleye maruz kalmış ve değişime uğramıştır. Bu araştırmada, İvriz Köy Enstitüsü’nün ve sonrasında dönüştürüldüğü öğretmen okulunun başlıca sosyal yapısı, eğitim vizyonu ve öğrenim verdiği nesiller üzerindeki etkisi, bizzat bu kurumun öğrencisi olmuş kişilerin anıları yardımıyla incelenmiştir. Enstitü mezunları ile yapılan röportajların yanı sıra, Köy Enstitülerini ve İvriz Köy Enstitüsü’nü konu alan akademik araştırmalar ve belgesellerden de yararlanılmıştır. İvriz Köy Enstitüsü’nün Türkiye’nin eğitim sistemine ve kırsal kalkınmaya olan katkıları ile sosyal ve kültürel etkilerinin ortaya konması hedeflenmektedir. Enstitünün tarihini ve misyonunu anlamak, genç Cumhuriyet’in eğitim vizyonunu ve kırsal kalkınma stratejilerini daha iyi idrak etmemizi sağlayacaktır.