Educational Practices and Policies

Current in-service education and training programmes (INSET) are often found to be unsatisfactory due to the fact that they do not provide the teachers with opportunities to be actively involved in their development and to reflect on their teaching experiences. This study presents an INSET programme in which Turkish E…

This article investigates the development of teachers’ professional identity during and after engaging in research at a Turkish university, which promotes action research as a key professional development strategy for language teachers. The teachers in this study carried out a process of engaging in research over four…

• DEMET YAYLI

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• HÜSEYİN ÖZÇINAR

This paper investigates how professional learning of teachers might be improved by two key factors: distributed leadership and teacher agency. Designed as a cross-sectional survey, this study used data from a total of 283 teachers working in a mix of public primary, secondary, and high schools across nine provinces in…

• MAHMUT POLATCAN

Practicum process is no doubt one of the most crucial features of the teacher training process. However, its implementation in Turkey, in different universities or even within the departments of a same faculty shows variation. This flexibility and limited feedback hours cause inconsistencies in teacher education by li…

• ESİM GÜRSOY

This report (Report #1) is as part of an Erasmus+ project entitled Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM (ATS STEM), an innovative policy experimentation project being conducted across eight European Union countries through a partnership of 12 educational institutions. STEM education is a priority for all of the AT…

This study aims at finding out English language teachers’ perceptions of educational supervision in relation to their professional development through a small-scale case study carried out in higher education context in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It commences with the theoretical underpinnings of d…

The aim of this study was to investigate the cooperative teachers’ supervision for effective mathematics teaching from the perspective of elementary student teachers during their field experiences. The participants were 259 senior elementary education majors (189 female and 70 male) who were enrolled in practicum cour…

This study aimed to explain youth definition and characteristics of youth, and also evaluate the importance of the youth political participation. Part of the this aim first of all youth definition is given, after that factors and constraints are evaluated on the participation of youth. And also youth needs and importa…

• MELİKE TEKİNDAL

Using all the sources efficiently depends on the improvement of human resources. In a period when competition among the countries in the world increases and economical, social and political competition accelerates, the need for the improving of the qualitative human force is becoming higher and higher and on the other…

• YAVUZ ERİŞEN

Using all the sources efficiently depends on the improvement of human resources. In a period when competition among the countries in the world increases and economical, social and political competition accelerates, the need for the improving of the qualitative human force is becoming higher and higher and on the other…

• NADİR ÇELİKÖZ

Öğretmen adaylarının öğretmenlik mesleğine başlamadan önce, kendilerini belli bir oranda yeterli görmeleri ve mesleğe yönelik olumlu bir bakış açısına sahip olmaları oldukça önemlidir. İşte bu çalışma, örgün eğitim kurumlarında din öğretimi yapmak üzere formasyon eğitimi alan öğretmen adaylarının, hem öğretmenlik mesl…

• AYŞEGÜL GÜN