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Afacan, Meltem Isik; Afacan, Ersin – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
The body is one of the ways people express themselves. This is true not only for people without disabilities, but also for people with disabilities. Physical education and sports are one of the methods of disabled people to express themselves physically in society. The aim of this study is to contribute to increasing the visibility of disability…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Athletics, Athletes, Competition
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Akbasli, Sait; Mavi, Duran – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
In this study, the conditions of the Syrian asylum seeker students in Turkish universities were addressed and discussed. This study was conducted by adopting a phenomenological approach from qualitative research methods. In this regard, interviews were held with fifteen Syrian asylum seeker students continuing their education in various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Refugees, Student Attitudes
Topkaya, Nursel; Sahin, Ertugrul – Online Submission, 2019
The Barriers to Seeking Psychological Help Scale (BSPHS) was originally developed to measure factors that kept college students from seeking mental health assistance. However, the underutilization of mental health services among adults is also common, and understanding the factors that inhibit adults from seeking help for mental health issues is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Help Seeking, Barriers
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Saraç, Leyla; McCullick, Bryan – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
While Turkey is mostly a Muslim country, officially it is a secular country; traditional gender roles are still maintained, and homosexuality is a taboo subject. The Turkish sporting world is no exception; it also excludes and ignores the existence of homosexuals and homosexuality. Using a single case study, this study aimed to contribute to fill…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, College Students, Physical Education
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Deniz, Caglar – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The Metropolitan city gives non-metropolitan students an opportunity to meet new social groups. In this article, the perceptions of sexuality of those students who come from provincial areas to a metropolitan city for university education are examined within a framework of semi-structured interviews. The study on which this article is based used a…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Saglam, Mehmet; Sungu, Hilmi – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
This study zeros in on rendering the teachers' discriminations among their students in various aspects in the narratives of primary school students of 1950s, 1970s and 1980s' Turkey. Construction and reconstruction of personal and social stories of teachers and students is also a sort of education and educational research. The method of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Oral History
Gungor, Ramazan; Prins, Esther – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2011
Adult education curricula such as literacy textbooks present blueprints for living, including different ways of being and relating as men and women. However, educators and scholars seldom consider the underlying assumptions about gender in literacy workbooks, especially in international settings. This study used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Literacy, Gender Bias, Sexual Identity
Manifold, Marjorie Cohee, Ed.; Willis, Steve Ed.; Zimmerman, Enid, Ed. – National Art Education Association, 2016
Globalization is blurring the lines between once clearly defined groups of people, making cultural sensitivity more important than ever. Culturally sensitive art education can cultivate the ability for students to empathize with and care about others, but until now, few guidelines have existed to help art educators bring together those from…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness, Culturally Relevant Education
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Celikten, Mustafa – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
This article explores the reasons why there are a relatively small number of women principals in Turkish state elementary schools. Current literature on women principals reveals that while many professional fields are showing increasing numbers of women in managerial and executive positions, the same cannot be said for educational administration.…
Descriptors: Females, School Administration, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries