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The Restructuring Process of Teacher Training System in Turkey: A Model of Teacher Training Based on Post-Graduate Education (PGCE)

Sabahattin Deniz and Nurettin Sahin

Abstract

The article highlights the development and restructuring of teacher education policy in Turkey and reforms in late 1990s. It includes an overview of the history of modern teacher education in the country and outlines the current system. The purpose of this paper was to describe the nature of reforms and restructuring process based on post-graduate teacher education (PGCE) in the post-1997 period in Turkey that have had an impact on teacher education.

Journal of Social Sciences
Volume 2 No. 1, 2006, 21-26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jssp.2006.21.26

Submitted On: 30 May 2006 Published On: 31 March 2006

How to Cite: Deniz, S. & Sahin, N. (2006). The Restructuring Process of Teacher Training System in Turkey: A Model of Teacher Training Based on Post-Graduate Education (PGCE) . Journal of Social Sciences, 2(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.3844/jssp.2006.21.26

Open AccessCopyright: © 2006 Sabahattin Deniz and Nurettin Sahin. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Turkey
  • teacher education
  • educational policy
  • higher education
  • restructuring