THE OPINIONS OF FIRST GRADE TEACHERS AS TO 12-YEAR COMPULSORY EDUCATION
İLKOKUL BİRİNCİ SINIF ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN 12 YILLIK KESİNTİLİ VE ZORUNLU EĞİTİM SİSTEMİNE İLİŞKİN GÖRÜŞLERİ

Author : Sevil FİLİZ -- Şehide ARSLANHAN
Number of pages : 305-322

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the views of primary school first grade teachers about the problems that they have lived and solution proposals that they have developed for the problems about the 12 year intermittent and compulsory education system. In this research, phenomenology design which is one of the qualitative researchdesigns was used. Research was carried out on total 22 first grade primary school teacher (12 woman, 10 man) working in Seyhan, a district of Adana. In this research, semi-structured questionnaire developed by the researcher was used to collect data. Data were analyzed by using content analysis. At the end of this research; most of the teachers have negative ideas about 12-year compulsory and intermittent education, they think that it isn’t true to take the school starting age to an earlier age, they say that it is good to raise the duration of compulsory education to 12 years, but they think that itsbeing intermittent is going to cause negative results, also, they say that they have problems in the first reading-writing process because of running and oblique hand writing, they suppose that new education system isn’t prepared by considering students’ development features, moreover they stated that they have problems more about the students in 12-yearintermittent and compulsory education. They suggested to remove running and oblique hand writing. In addition, they suggested that pre-school education must be compulsory and school starting age must be raised to age of 72 months.

Keywords

Intermittent Compulsory Education, Starting Age of Compulsory Education, First-Class Curriculum

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