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2022-9

Author

Ocak, Zeynep

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The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of educators about the newly released Professional Teaching Law in Turkey and reveal if the expectations and needs of practitioners are met. For this purpose, a semi-structured interview was conducted with two academics, two master’s students, five teachers, two school administrators, and three union representatives. The sample of the study is composed of 14 participants. The participants were selected through purposive participant selection method as the study requires participants to have information on Professional Teaching Law. Therefore, this is basic qualitative research that adopts phenomenology method. This study’s data sources are the law itself, and semi-structured interview, which was developed by the researcher and her advisor, and approved by the experts in the field. The qualitative data were analyzed through descriptive and content analysis. The results indicated that Professional Teaching Law is considered as a necessary law for the sake of the teachers, but this current law is perceived as being inadequate to make positive differences teachers, and it failed to meet the expectations of the field members. The law can be updated by involving teachers in the content preparation and further research can be conducted with different groups of teachers to compare the findings to reveal different ideas on the law.

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teaching law, professional teaching law, career steps, öğretmenlik kanunu, öğretmenlik meslek kanunu, kariyer basamakları

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99417

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis