Harmonization Problem of Refugee Students: Turkey Case

Volume 7 Issue 4
Yunus Akdeniz Serhat Arslan
Pages: 395-417 Download Count : 482 View Count: 613 DOI Number 10.24331/ijere.1178682 Facebook Share on Google+ Save to Zotero Save to Mendeley

Abstract:


In this study, Syrian refugee students’, who have been living in Turkey since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, adaptation problems and the level of Turkish students’ adoption, are searched in terms of gender and class level. In this context, investigating Republic of Turkey’s education policies, possible problems in future and solutions are aimed with the opinions of the instructors of temporary training centers with the help of semi-structured interview form. The sample group of this study is formed of 700 students from Şanlıurfa Haliliye Rabia Hatun Girl Anatolian Religious High School, Konuklu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Rabia Hatun Religious Temporary Training Center and Milli İrade Temporary Training Center, 211 of them are refugees and 489 of them are Turkish. 173 of these students are male and 527 of them are female. For the qualitative part of the study, 15 temporary education center instructors are viewed from 4 different cities. In this study, Syrian refugee students’ adaptation problems and the level of Turkish students’ adoption are searched in terms of gender and class level and temporary training centers’ instructors’ opinions on these topics and refugees’ educational status are analyzed. In addition to this, while explaining the variances, the figures like average, standard deviation, and percentiles were represented.

Keywords

  • Refugee students
  • adaptation problems
  • education
  • educational status
  • education policies
  • instructor opinions
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