The perceptions of teachers and administrators on the relationship between some non-curricular school factors and the potential success of the new basic education curriculum

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2008

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Vatanartıran, Sinem

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The Ministry of Education of Turkey changed the national education programs in accordance with recent approaches in education as part of the educational reform that covers basic and secondary levels of schooling in 2005-2006 academic year. This educational reform that was proposed to change the formerly traditional, behaviorist, and teacher-centered programs into constructivist and student-centered programs will obviously have effects on millions of students, educators and families. Its long-term influence is expected to be seen on the whole society in coming years. The purpose of this study is to describe how school culture, values on professionalism, perceptions on the new programs, and organizational structure and leadership of schools will ease or impede with the implementation of the new national educational programs. A pure qualitative research design was used to study this problem. Multiple case study was carried out with semi-structured, face-to-face interviews as the method of data collection. The data sources for the interviews were teachers and administrators from four schools of different socio economic regions in Istanbul, one of which was a private school. Some of the official documents of the Ministry of Education were also used as supportive evidence to the data collected through the interviews.

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School management and organization., Education.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17973

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S. Vatanartıran, “The perceptions of teachers and administrators on the relationship between some non-curricular school factors and the potential success of the new basic education curriculum,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2008.