Dear Readers,
In our country, one of the main issues on which the most discussions, regulations and complaints have been made in recent years is the problem of the education system / lack of system. Today, when the world is being reshaped, the importance of education is increasing and the problems in the educational field are multiplying.
In order to overcome the dilemmas in our education system, it is necessary to stay away from political concerns and to take scientific studies into consideration.
We can only produce the right solutions by utilizing evidence-based information. Education on this subject
managers should be enabled to benefit from the scientific studies conducted in our universities.
One of the main problems in the country is that science, scientists and scientific research are not given enough importance. If you put religion in front of science, modernization is blocked.
Problems become unsolvable. As today, problematic structures emerge in every field.
The education system is based on the principles and revolutions of Atatürk on the foundations laid by the founding will.
It should be considered important that it is structured according to the requirements of the age without deviating from the line it envisages.
Seeing the education system as an application field for outdated ideologies is the most important evil that can be done to the country. Our educational problems can only be solved when solutions are produced with a scientific perspective.
Experienced educational scientists need to take responsibility for finding solutions to the growing problems in our educational institutions. It is obvious that renewing curriculum programs, changing the teacher training system and pretending to provide values education will not solve the problems. The misconception that eviscerating courses is a solution, and lengthening and shortening the duration of education has not brought a solution either.
Accurate diagnostics are important to find the right solutions. Discussions in our country
focuses on the quality of education. The most fundamental dimension of the education process is the quality of education.
The quality of education is the ability of educated people to respond to the expectations, needs and demands of society at the expected level with their knowledge, skills and behaviors related to their education.
When we talk about quality in education, we need to look at what the system produces. Quality in education
reflections, students' attitudes and behaviors at school, on the street and at home, performance in international exams, physical and mental health, academic and social success. When we look at these criteria, we see that the picture is not encouraging.
The most important of the steps to be taken for a solution is the political and administrative reforms in the field of educational administration.
The cadre disease must be abandoned. The political parties governing the country appoint their own supporters to all education administrator positions without considering merit, which leads to serious bottlenecks in the education system. Provincial and district national education directors, school principals and central organization employees of the ministry who rely on politicians perceive themselves as untouchable and unaccountable, and this perception feeds the intention of psychological intimidation on those who are managed. When administrators make a distinction between supporters and others in the institutions they manage, the energy of employees is wasted and lessons are inefficient.
Specialized training units for education managers in the newly established Maarif Academies
The willing teachers should undergo this training and be appointed.
Objective criteria must be observed in appointments and the criterion of partisanship must be eliminated.
One of the solutions is to ensure that teachers are well trained and respected in society.
to increase the quality of education. In recent years, while the problem of training quality teachers has been on track, education
The dysfunctionalization of the faculties has further disrupted the cumbersome structure of the system. Our teachers
In addition to the psychological intimidation efforts of administrators, they are subjected to violence by parents of students and their reputation is damaged by being complained to CIMER, and they are unable to perform their duties due to the stress caused by the threat of rotation in the middle of the academic year. The elimination of all these problems as soon as possible should be one of the priorities of the state.
Appointing sufficient number of guidance counselors and psychological counselors in schools is now a
is a must. The fact that the highest quota is allocated to religious culture teachers in every new assignment period, while the quota for psychological counselors remains insignificant, reflects an important mistake. If problems such as peer bullying, academic failure, harmful substance use, absenteeism and school dropout, which have increased significantly in recent years, are not prevented, teachers will have no chance to teach in classrooms. This is how grave the situation appears to be.
Another important step towards a solution is to make early childhood education compulsory and systematic.
is to be brought in. Because education levels build on each other. The fact that the problem of early childhood education is pretended to be solved on paper, and that it is a makeshift education that only lucky children can benefit from, is one of the main reasons for the lack of quality in education.
Pedagogical formation of nearly one million pre-school children in mosques
The continuation of the practice of sıbyan schools taught by imams who do not exist is a reactionary practice that takes the country back to the days before the law on unity in education. This wrong practice carries the danger of causing conflicts between children in primary schools in the future. This mistake should be reversed as soon as possible.
In place of this, especially by repairing village schools, pre-school education institutions that provide 2 years of education should be opened. Thousands of child development and pre-school education graduates trained in this field are waiting to be appointed.
The education that children receive in the early years affects their learning processes in later years,
It is recognized all over the world that it significantly affects academic achievement and social skills. Moreover, the necessity of supporting development in the early years of human life has become one of the fundamental principles of contemporary pedagogy.
Children spend a significant amount of their time in the family environment during early childhood and the family environment is the first environment in which children's attitudes, behaviors and beliefs are shaped. For this reason, parents are their first teachers and the first people to provide them with a social environment. With the start of pre-school education, children are introduced to a new social environment that enriches their learning experiences.
Preschools bring children together with their peers and other adults,
Preschools offer a rich stimulus-environment that diversifies their physical, cognitive, affective, social and moral development. In addition, preschool institutions support children's development, thus ensuring that this development is more permanent and effective. For this reason, another purpose of preschool education institutions is to reinforce and support the skills that children acquire at school in the family environment, to ensure consistency between school and home, and to ensure that parents become an effective stakeholder of the school.
Another solution that can be proposed is the elimination of moral decay in society.
The advertisement of immoralities that we encounter in the media every day renders the values education in schools ineffective. Adults who are constantly in the public eye, especially politicians, clergy, artists and administrators, need to correct themselves. As it stands today, the values education given in schools is of no value.
Through the actions and words of those who govern the country, intellectuals, artists and politicians
The fact that they lead to the decay of our values should not be overlooked. Television series,
broadcasts and computer games aimed at children should be well supervised and the state should step in if necessary. Values education should be taken into account in visual media, in the family and in all institutions of society.
A major flaw in the education system is that the conditions for school and family cooperation are increasingly
to be eliminated. In recent years, the negativities in this regard, which have reached the level of violence against teachers, have reached dangerous dimensions. Solutions should be sought to correct this wrong in the most effective way. In reality, both the family and the school should complement each other as educational institutions as well as social institutions.
Another solution is to systematize family education in education, so that family and society
participation is ensured. Preventing the current parent-teacher conflicts and networking for joint action will have a significant mitigating effect on problems. Parents' imprudence in asking teachers to give their children high grades or pass a class before they come to school and fulfill their roles as students should be prevented.
By systematizing family education, it is necessary to ensure that all parties understand that the family is an educational institution but not an alternative to the school. For this purpose, a serious mobilization for family education should be initiated. By educating parents, they should be informed about both the correction of mistakes made at home and their participation in education in cooperation with the school.
In addition to family education, the importance of family and community participation at all levels of education is an important step towards a solution. The CIMER application, which turns parents and teachers into rival parties, should be ended and parents should be made to respect teachers. Otherwise, school and family institutions that should cooperate will lose their educational functions.
Zembat and Unutkan (1999) define family involvement as “the participation of families in
”a systematic approach to supporting, educating and engaging parents in their children's education, enhancing and diversifying children's experiences through effective communication between home and school, and enriching programs with the participation and contributions of parents".
For this reason, family involvement is not only the responsibility of parents or the training of parents.
process; it should not be ignored that parents should be encouraged by the school and the teacher in this regard. Family involvement includes providing social and emotional support to parents as well as teaching them various skills.
According to Yavuzer (2006), teachers and parents should be supportive in the child's educational process.
is critical for the child's healthy development. In this process, parents and
The importance of teachers taking an active role in children's education and working in cooperation to promote the best interests of the child should be taken into account. The education of children is not a matter that can be entrusted only to the family or only to the school. Therefore, this heavy responsibility should be shared between the family and the school.
Parents as part of family involvement in pre-school, primary and secondary education
They should participate in the daily activities, planning and management of the school in order to realize the academic and social goals of the school and to make the necessary contribution to their children's education. This issue, which seems difficult in today's conditions, can be solved through effective and systematic family education.
The concept of family involvement has been frequently discussed in our country in recent years, and it has become a common topic of discussion between schools and parents.
It encompasses a range of activities such as phone calls, newsletters, parent-teacher conferences, and classroom visits that are necessary for parents to interact. Gestwicki (2004) defines parental involvement as a process that aims to improve parenting skills in general and provides information and support to parents in this process. In a broader sense, it can be seen as a highly dynamic learning process in which parents are actively involved. This process is based on the interests and needs of parents.
To summarize, the main purpose of family involvement is to strengthen the family
development of the child, thus enabling parents to contribute to the child's development through school-family cooperation.
to take an active role in their education. In addition, family involvement,
It is a systematic practice designed to ensure the participation of parents in the educational process, to increase information sharing between parents and educational institutions and to improve the relationship between the appropriate parent and child.
Dear Readers,
All segments of society on the accumulated problems of our education system and solutions
must take responsibility. If we are late in finding a solution partnership, we will waste time with wrong practices. Moreover, if the 21st century is really to be the century of Turkey, the government must value criticism and observe social consensus.