Vocational schools in Turkey an administrative and organizational analysis

2000-01-01
Şimşek, Hasan
Yıldırım, Ali
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The data used in this paper were derived from a larger project which had the aim of critically evaluating the Turkish vocational education system on a number of different levels. This article examines the administrative and organisational practices in a selected group of secondary vocational schools in Turkey from the point of view of school administrators, teachers and industrial managers. The results indicate that the Turkish vocational education system is characterised by a centralised, top-down bureaucracy, which inhibits innovative capacity. The authors argue that a degree of decentralisation is necessary at various levels of the system.
Education system, Vocational education, Large project, School administrator, Organisational practice
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88064
International Review of Education
Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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H. Şimşek and A. Yıldırım, “Vocational schools in Turkey an administrative and organizational analysis,” International Review of Education, pp. 327–342, 2000, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88064.
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