Democracy education in Turkish Education System

Authors

  • Mehmet Okutan Yrd. Doç. Dr.

Keywords:

Democracy, Democracy education, Democracy education in schools.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the reflection of legislation and practical samples of democracy education in school education of Turkish Education. Method of this study can be defined field study. For this purpose especially objectives, rules and  principles in legislation was examined then did observations in schools and try to find out how the practical applications reflected in democracy education in schools.  Results; although there are some expressions to carry out democracy education in legislation part of the system, democracy education does not achieve in desired level in practically. The situation of using the classical teacher approach in class management gives some hints to us about the why democracy education was not desired functionality in our schools and classes. The most critical suggestions that reached in this study to settle the democracy in education is “at first school managers and teachers are benefited from the lifelong learning possibilities to be internalized and for making their lifestyle of democracy culture but so that we get desired level of democracy education in education”.

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Author Biography

Mehmet Okutan, Yrd. Doç. Dr.

Psychological Counselling and Guidance Department.

Published

2010-04-08

How to Cite

Okutan, M. (2010). Democracy education in Turkish Education System. Journal of Human Sciences, 7(1), 938–946. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1191

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Guidance and Psychological Counselling