Hasan Aydin

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Yıldız Technical University

The raising of the life standards of individuals living within a society is only possible through the provision of quality education. Quality education can be realized only through the training of teachers with the necessary skills and positive attitudes towards the training provided at faculties of education and through teacher training programs....

Education is the key to raising generations that are modern, democratic, productive, diligent, understanding, perceptive, critical and inquisitive. Teacher education is more important today than it has been in half a century. Thus, teachers are so significant to education and scholars argue that teacher quality is the most important within-school f...

Problem Statement: The concept of multiculturalism was in general perceived in terms of ethnic background or difference in race and so brought forth negative viewpoints and apprehensions with regard to the issue. It is undoubtedly of great importance to provide comprehensive educational systems in which individuals in multicultural societies can li...

Multicultural education is a process that attaches importance to the differences between students and makes no attempt to deny their existence. This ensures that the process continues in an egalitarian manner. Multicultural education is an educational reform movement that exists within the context of a wider process of societal reform and supports...

Bu araştırmanın amacı öğretmen adaylarının, çokkültürlü eğitim tutumları ile epistemolojik inançları arasındaki ilişkisinin incelenmesidir. İlişkisel araştırma deseninde nicel çalışmanın örnekleminde, kolay ulaşılabilir amaçlı örneklem yöntemi tercih edilmiştir. Araştırmanın katılımcılarını, Marmara bölgesinde bir devlet üniversitesi eğitim fakülte...

The aim of this study is to examine the metaphorical images of pre-service mathematics teacher attending the ‘pedagogical formation sertificate program’ concerning mathematics and its nature, and also the concept of mathematics teacher. Metaphors generated by these trainees with regard to mathematics and the mathematics teacher and to analyze wheth...

Multicultural education is a recent educational perspective that cares about the needs of different cultural groups. As teachers perform the educational procedure, they have importance in achieving the goals of multicultural education. In this study, a concept map to measure teachers’ knowledge on multicultural education and democracy and multicult...

This study relied on Sheorey and Mokhtari’s (2001) metacognitive knowledge about reading strategies,which was influenced by a number of factors, including previous experiences, beliefs, culture-specific instructional practices and proficiency in a second language (L2). This study is thereby built on the premise that EFL readers’ metacognitive aware...

Development and learning processes are universal. However, the upbringing of a child including the preschool period takes place in certain social and cultural settings (Brooker & Woodhead, 2010). Although there are universal principles as to how children develop and learn, in practice, the development and learning of a child are shaped by the condi...

This study involves a content analysis of studies conducted in the field of multicultural education by researchers in Turkey. For this purpose, 32 research studies obtained in full-text from the ERIC database and the National Thesis Center of Turkey between 2005 and 2014 in addition to 7 published books are examined herein. In order to evaluate the...

In recent years, bilingual education has been a crucial phenomenon in the educational community in Turkey. This study aims to investigate whether academics have positive perceptions towards bilingual education or not. Regarding this issue, it is important to get the opinions of academics that are responsible for training future teachers. An online...

In this study, the evaluation of the teaching processes at the science high schools at which teachers employ a constructivist approach was made. A quantitative method was employed for the study. The internal consistency coefficient of the scale developed by the researchers is quite high. The Cronbach alpha values vary between alpha = 0.95 (1. facto...

This article reports on a qualitative study conducted at the Nigerian Turkish International Colleges (NTICs) in Abuja, Nigeria. Twenty-two participants comprised of three administrators, seven teachers, four parents, and eight students participated in the study. The data collected through observations, informal, formal and semi-structured in-depth...

Multicultural education is defined as the school approach that guarantees education and teaching based on democratic values and equality in education. In societies where cultural differences exist with regards to education, ethnicity, race, language, religion, gender etc., multicultural education aims to diminish prejudices, identity conflicts, pow...

ÖZET Çokkültürlü eğitim; etnik, ırksal, dil, din, cinsiyet, vb gibi kültürel özelliklere bağlı farklılıkların olduğu toplumlarda, önyargı, kimlik çatışması, güç çekişmelerini azaltmak için, toplumun farklı beklentilerine cevap veren eğitim politikaları ve uygulamalarının eğitime yansıtılması ve kültürel çoğulculuğu teşvik etmek için demokratik değe...

Çokkültürlü eğitim; etnik, ırksal, dil, din, cinsiyet, vb gibi kültürel özelliklere bağlı farklılıkların olduğu toplumlarda, önyargı, kimlik çatışması, güç çekişmelerini azaltmak için, toplumun farklı beklentilerine cevap veren eğitim politikaları ve uygulamalarının eğitime yansıtılması ve kültürel çoğulculuğu teşvik etmek için demokratik değerlere...

Çokkültürlü eğitim; etnik, ırksal, dil, din, cinsiyet, vb gibi kültürel özelliklere bağlı farklılıkların olduğu toplumlarda, önyargı, kimlik çatışması, güç çekişmelerini azaltmak için, toplumun farklı beklentilerine cevap veren eğitim politikaları ve uygulamalarının eğitime yansıtılması ve kültürel çoğulculuğu teşvik etmek için demokratik değerlere...

Çokkültürlü eğitim; etnik, ırksal, dil, din, cinsiyet, vb gibi kültürel özelliklere bağlı farklılıkların olduğu toplumlarda, önyargı, kimlik çatışması, güç çekişmelerini azaltmak için, toplumun farklı beklentilerine cevap veren eğitim politikaları ve uygulamalarının eğitime yansıtılması ve kültürel çoğulculuğu teşvik etmek için demokratik değerlere...

ABSTRACT Multicultural education is defined as the school approach that guarantees education and teaching based on democratic values and equality in education. In societies where cultural differences exist with regards to education, ethnicity, race, language, religion, gender etc., multicultural education aims to diminish prejudices, identity confl...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions and experiences of academic members’ that working atcollege of educationon multicultural education. In this qualitative study, open-ended questions were formed and e-mail to participants from 83 universities in Turkey that have faculties of education. Atotal of 357 academics took part in t...

Problem statement: The main responsibility in the implementation of multicultural education, which includes notions like equality, respect, and peace, as well as an equal opportunity for success for all students, belongs to teachers. The teachers' perception of and attitude towards multicultural education are directly related to how they will imple...

Researchers’ findings have already reached a general consensus that teacher planning has a significant effect on both teaching and learning. Many studies have been carried out to investigate effective ways to construct and improve planning. However, few studies have been done in a cultural context to help understand the similar and different challe...

The “rediscovery” of ethnicity and cultural identities has created an awareness of the need to cope with the management of ethnic and cultural diversity throughpolicies which promote participation of ethnic and cultural minority groups and allowed to the resources of society, while maintaining the unity of the country. Multiculturalism is a systema...

This article presents the results of a research study carried out in 2010 and 2011 on the evolution of the digital divide in two different cultural contexts: Europe and the United States of America. Using an Internet-based questionnaire parents and teenagers were surveyed regarding some variables related to their digital skills and their participat...

This study aimed to explain perception and place of private establishments preparing students for various exams, in educational sector. A non-experimental quantitative method used for collecting data. Likert scale questionnaire applied to the students. The questionnaire applied to preparatory and first class students of the public and private unive...

This paper examines the themes that emerged from an analysis of preservice secondary mathematics teachers' contributions to an online blogging activity. The blog was conducted as a standard component of a college Euclidean Geometry course offered in a university in the western United States. Participant contributions to the blog were analyzed with...

The Perceptions of Primary School Teachers Regarding the Terms Used in Multicultural Education

Multicultural education has developed over the last several decades and it is becoming increasingly recognized as a significant educational issue and it is an approach to teaching and learning that is based on democratic values and beliefs and affirms cultural pluralism within culturally diversesocieties. The purpose of this piece to bring conceptu...

This study examined the perceptions of the efficacy of the Gülen educational initiative and provides an analysis of the educational viability of “Gülen-inspired” schools in Nigeria, which named “Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTICs). This study used a qualitative methodology with case study approach in which 22 individuals participated, a...

Studies on teaching and learning processes are mostly related to issues going on within the classroom environment. However, activities done outside the classroom are also crucial for language development of the students. Out-of-class activities can be an explanation for the quicker skill development of some learners, and they can contribute to achi...

Education plays an essential role in an individual life. It is through this process that a person initially formulates his thoughts with the help and guidance of the instructors within the boundaries of school. Parallel to this, it is also by means of education that an individual discovers his strengths and is able to apply them to his practical li...

The cohesion of our multicultural societies depends on mutual understanding, engaging proactively in co-operation between different communities and respecting one another. This paper deals with the educational philosophy ofa well-known Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen and its application to schools in Nigeria. Gülen- inspired schools in Nig...

In recent years, Turkey has seen an increase in immigration and, consequently, also in the enrolment of international students. These students from many countries, with a variety of cultural, linguistic, ethnic, religious, and educational backgrounds are in need of education that “teaches the value of cultural diversity.” Schools must also deal wit...

Due to the aberrant nature of global weather in recent years, climate change has become an important issue in the national and international forums. This paper discusses a way of building intercultural virtual platforms in the social networking sites to coordinate the secondary school students and teachers from diverse corners of the world on a com...

Despite the wealth of literature generated over the past three decades on requests and apologies as a speech act, cross-cultural requests and apologies have been neglected as a research topic in the international press. This cross-sectional mixed method study was designed to examine requests and apologies with the long-term goal of designing a vali...

Piaget's theory, which is at the center of cognitive approach and major theoretical foundation in terms of the intelligent development, explains children's language learning by using four stages of cognitive development. For instance, Piaget maintains that Egocentrism is related to language learning as an inner speech and can affect on differentiat...

Purpose Web 2.0 is a collaborative web development platform that has had tremendous usage in building effective, interactive, and collaborative virtual societies at home and abroad. Multicultural study is another trend that has tremendous possibilities to help people in the fight against racism and enables them to become active members of a democra...

As the use of technology becomes widespread, more and more advancements are being created to enable people to participate interactively in many global societies. Web 2.0 is a new technology that has tremendous possibilities for social collaboration. Multicultural education has huge potential to help in the fight against racism, and to enable people...

The purpose of this study was to examine the consequences of integration and assimilation of first-generation young adults (over 18 years old) who are Turkish immigrants in Romania. This is a qualitative study with 31 first-generation Turkish immigrants in two different Romanian cities. The participants were interviewed and were asked open-ended qu...

Turkey has implemented a ban on the use of the Hijab, or the headscarf, in state-controlled areas like universities, government offices, and other public places. This has raised various reactions from the Turkish society and its international critics, most of which are not pleasant. The anti-Hijab movement violates the basic principal of universal...