the reform of pre-service teacher education in turkey

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1、THEREFORMOFPRE-SERVICETEACHEREDUCATIONINTURKEY(inRonaldG.Sultana(ed.),ChallengeandChangeintheEuro-MediterraneanRegion:CaseStudiesinEducationalInnovation,NewYork,NY:PeterLang,2001,pp.411-432)HasanSimsekAliYildirimMiddleEastTechnicalUniversityAnkara,TurkeyAbstractTheTurkishHigherEducationC

2、ouncilhasrecentlyrestructuredtheinitialteachereducation.Drasticshortagesofteachersespeciallyintheareasofelementaryandpre-schooleducationtriggeredthismajoroverhaulinteachereducationinTurkey.Then,thereformactsspreadedtotheareasofcurriculum,departmentalstructureoftheteachertraininginstituti

3、ons,school-universitypartnership.Thispaperpresentsthemaintenetsofthisrestructuringbyparticularlyfocusingontheconditionsandissuesthatsparkedthemove,mainareasofpre-serviceteachereducationwherethechangeeffortsareconcentrated,issuesofimplementationandexpectationsforthefuture.IntroductionObse

4、rversoftheworldeducationalsystemswouldquicklyacknowledgethatthe1990saretheyearsofrestructuringandreformationofeducationalsystemsinmanyrespects.Suchpopularfiguresofworld’spoliticalsceneasBillClintonandTonyBlairhavelongagodeclarededucationasthemostpressinganddemandingpolicyareasamongtheirn

5、ationalpriorities.Ofmanyvariantsofeducationalissuesandchallenges,teachereducationseemstobeoneofthereformitemsthatcutacrossmanylayersanddetailsofeducationalissues.Nationsareawareoftheimportanceofeducationoffuturegenerationsthatmaynowaycomethroughwithoutpayingattentiontotheeducationofeduca

6、tors.Inthispaper,wewillattempttodrawapictureofarecentinitialteachertrainingreforminTurkeywithsuchdetailsasitsantecedentconditionsandissues,thesocio-politicalcontextandcontentofthereforminitiativeandexpectationsaswellasconcernsforthefuture.Indoingso,wewillalsoconsiderandreportsomemajorref

7、orminitiativesoninitialteachertraininginsomeother26countriesinanattempttofindsomecommonpatterns(ifany)ofreformpoliciesacrossthesesystems.InitialTeacherEducationReformsinSomeCountriesThereforminitiativesthataregoingtobepresentedbelowshouldnowaybeexpectedanexhaustivelistofc