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Ceyhun Elgin – Discover Education, 2024
This paper examines the shifting landscape of higher education in Turkey, highlighting a disconcerting trend of politically motivated appointments, coined as "parasailing." Departing from traditional merit-based norms, this practice of appointing professors without necessary approvals disrupts the academic environment, prompting concerns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Integrity
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Siraz, Fadil; Bay, Erdal – International Education Studies, 2021
This study attempted to understand the curricula in conveying the state's own understanding to individuals, according to the reconceptualization approach. As content, the social studies curricula (SSC), with the assumption that political influence would be seen most in these curricula, were examined. This study aims understanding the social…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship Education, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
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Tutkal, Serhat – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
In January 2016, 2212 academics have signed a petition to criticise human rights violations in Kurdish cities, and faced grave consequences as a result. By presenting the experiences of six dismissed signatory academics, this article aims to show the effects of authoritarian neoliberal policies on higher education institutions. After demonstrating…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights
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Arslan, Kürsat; Kilinç, Ali Çagatay – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
During the last decade, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of Syrian asylum seekers, including forced displaced academics (FDAs), in Turkey. Along with providing essentials, there is the issue of social integration for these people. To efficiently deal with this problem, Turkish authorities have developed both educational…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Educational Policy, Social Integration
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Wiseman, Wendy A.; Kesgin, Burak – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2015
This essay is part of a collection of short essays solicited from authors around the globe who teach religion courses at the college level (not for professional religious training). They are published together with an introduction in "Teaching Theology and Religion" 18:3 (July 2015). The authors were asked to provide a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Religion, Sociology, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
Usun, Salih – Online Submission, 2004
The aim of this study is to determine the factors and problems associated with the growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in developing countries and examine the Turkish distance Education System from the point of the factors such as cultural; political; economic; technological. The study, firstly, introduces some applications…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Open Education, College Faculty