İkbal Tuba Şahin Sak- PhD
- Professor at Van Yuzuncu Yil University
İkbal Tuba Şahin Sak
- PhD
- Professor at Van Yuzuncu Yil University
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January 2025 - present
Van Yüzüncü Yıl University
Position
- Professor
February 2019 - present
September 2017 - September 2018
Education
February 2010 - May 2013
September 2006 - December 2009
September 2002 - June 2006
Publications
Publications (72)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during periods of quarantine, parents and children were sometimes together in ways which contrasted their pre-pandemic life. This paper uses a reflective parenting lens and processual approach to analyse the quarantine experiences of twenty-four parents of three-to-six-year-olds from China and Türkiye, gat...
Play is an essential activity for various developmental aspects of the early childhood years and sometimes this activity includes taking risks, a mixture of emotions ranging from fear and feeling out of control to thrills and enjoyment. However, parents’ fears, anxieties and expectations related to their children’s safety may discourage children fr...
This quantitative survey-based study examines 366 Czech and 532 Turkish preschool teachers’ compassion levels and psychological well-being. The Adult Compassion Scale and Psychological Well-being Scale were used as the data-collection tools, and Mann-Whitney U testing and Kruskal Wallis-H testing were used for data analysis. Although Turkish presch...
The aim of this study is to determine the views of preschool teachers about misbehaviors observed in preschool children. The participants of this phenomenological study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, consists of 41 preschool teachers working in different cities of Türkiye in the 2022-2023 academic year and determined by the purp...
In this study, the views of preschool teachers about bilingual children were examined. The participants of this phenomenological research, one of the qualitative research methods, consisted of 40 teachers working in preschool institutions located in Van, Türkiye. The data were collected with a semi-structured interview form developed by the researc...
Background: Compassion satisfaction and fear of compassion affect the mental health of professionals who work with people. In addition, each of these two variables can be important indicators of the quality of the services such professionals provide.
Methods: This study examines compassion as a source of satisfaction and fear among 293 professional...
This phenomenological study examines teachers’ self-reported practices related to the learning centers in classrooms that were recommended by the 2013 Turkish Preschool Curriculum and the conditions of such centers. Data from 38 female and six male preschool teachers were collected through a semi-structured interview protocol and an observation for...
This study examines the effects of Motivational Enhancement Training on male preservice preschool teachers’ motivation and vocational-outcome expectations, using a randomized pretest-posttest control group design. Of the 34 participants, 17 formed the experimental group and the other 17, the control group. A Personal Information Form, Adult Motivat...
This longitudinal survey-based study of the effects of preschool teachers’ developmentally appropriate beliefs on 3- to 6-year-old children’s social skills sampled 350 preschool teachers and 350 preschool children. Data were collected through demographic information forms, the Developmentally Appropriate Practice Teacher Beliefs Scale (DAP-TBS), an...
Bu çalışmanın amacı ortaokul son sınıf öğrencilerinin merhamet düzeyleri ile yaşam doyumlarının incelenmesidir. Tarama modelindeki bu çalışmanın örneklemini, Diyarbakır ilinde ortaokul son sınıfta okuyan 175 öğrenci oluşturmuştur. Araştırmada veri toplama aracı olarak Kişisel Bilgi Formu, Merhamet Ölçeği ve Çok Boyutlu Öğrenci Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği k...
Bu araştırmanın amacı sosyal bilgiler öğretmenlerinin mesleki tükenmişlik düzeylerinin ve öğretmen öz-yeterlik inançlarının incelenmesidir. Nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden tarama modelinde desenlenen bu çalışmanın örneklemi Van ili merkez ilçelerindeki Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı’na bağlı ortaokullarda görev yapan 154 sosyal bilgiler öğretmeninden oluşmu...
The aim of this survey-based quantitative study was to examine the relationship between 221 preservice preschool teachers’ views about Gordon’s Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET) model and their communication skills. Also, their views about the TET and their communication skills were examined based on their demographic characteristics. Data were...
The COVID-19 pandemic, which affects all areas of life, has also affected children in need of education and care. It is of great importance to develop policies that take into account the best interests of children in this process. In this review article, the policies developed for early childhood education and care during the pandemic period in fiv...
Obstetricians and gynecologists are likely to be at risk of occupational distress because their quality of life is affected as a result of their experiences of assisting with traumatic births and/or providing abortions, among others. Nevertheless, there have been few studies of this group of doctors’ compassion fatigue. This study aimed to examine...
Doküman analizi, araştırma verilerinin birincil kaynağı olarak çeşitli dokümanların toplanması, gözden geçirilmesi, sorgulanması ve analizi olarak tanımlanabilen bilimsel bir araştırma yöntemidir. Bu yöntem, alanyazında çoğunlukla diğer araştırma yöntemlerinin tamamlayıcısı olarak hizmet ederken, tek başına bir yöntem olarak da kullanılmaktadır. So...
This paper reports Turkish and Chinese parents' experiences with their 3-6 year-old children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Thirteen Turkish and 11 Chinese parents participated in a study that employed semi-structured interviews to examine participant self-perceived experiences. Findings show that the study revealed many commonalities in t...
In this chapter, critical moments in men’s career trajectories are examined through analysis of the interviews and storylines of both dropouts and persisters. Drawing the storylines enables the participants in this study to clarify their experiences and identify critical events related to their careers (Beijaard, van Driel, & Verloop, 1999; Brody &...
Çalışmanın katılımcıları okul-aile iş birliğini desteklemek amacıyla genellikle ev ziyaretleri, veli toplantıları düzenlemekte ve farklı yöntemler kullanarak velilerle iletişim kurmaktadırlar. Ancak yaptıkları bu uygulamaların yetersiz olduğunu düşünmektedirler. Bu yetersizlikler farklı nedenlerden kaynaklanmaktadır. Kalabalık sınıflar, öğretmen-ve...
Sonuç olarak COVID-19, insanlığı tehdit eden ilk virüs değildir ve son da olmayacaktır. Aileler ve dünya çocukları için bir gelecek oluşturmak, onları önemsemek ve korumak amacıyla güçlendirici ve etkili stratejiler kullanmalıyız (Clark vd., 2020).
Politikacı ve eğitimci kimliğiyle Fransız Devrimi’ne önemli katkıları olan Pestalozzi, alan yazında üzerinde önemle durulması gereken reformculardan biridir. Yaşadığı dönemde sosyal adalet, kamu refahı ve mutluluk gibi konuları oldukça fazla önemseyen bu düşünür, fikirlerini toplumsal gerçekler üzerinden açıklamaya çalışmıştır. Sadece Türkiye’de de...
Okul öncesi dönemde çocuklar çok fazla soru sormaktadırlar ve bu durum çoğu kez ebeveynler ve öğretmenler tarafından bir yakınma konusu olmaktadır. Oysa ki erken çocukluk yıllarında çocukların soruları, onların gelişimleri ve öğrenmeleri için oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmanın amacı da okul öncesi dönem çocuklarının sorularının incelenmesidir. Bu ama...
Bu araştırmanın amacı, farklı branşlardan öğretmenlerin mesleki tükenmişlik düzeyleri ile örgütsel sinizm tutumlarının incelenmesidir. Tarama modelindeki bu araştırmanın örneklemini seçkisiz örnekleme yöntemiyle belirlenen farklı branşlardan 313 öğretmen oluşturmuştur. Maslach Tükenmişlik Envanteri-Eğitimci Formu, Örgütsel Sinizm Ölçeği ve Kişisel...
Bu çalışmada, annelerin çocuk, anne olmak ve anne çocuk arasındaki bağ kavramlarına ilişkin ürettikleri metaforların incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmaya, yaşları 20 ile 65 arasında değişen 108 anne katılmıştır. Veri toplamak amacıyla üç cümleden oluşan formlar hazırlanmıştır: “Bence çocuk … gibidir. Çünkü ...” “Bence anne olmak ... gibidir. Çünkü...
This qualitative study looks at differences in how preschoolers’ difficult questions are reported by parents and teachers, and according to whether the children and parents in question are male vs. female. The participants consisted of 131 parents whose children attended public kindergartens in Turkey and 131 preschool teachers. A background-inform...
Bu nitel çalışmanın amacı, okul öncesi öğretmen, veli ve yöneticilerinin Türkiye’de okul öncesi eğitimin zorunlu olmasına ilişkin görüşlerini incelemektir. Çalışmaya, çeşitli okul öncesi eğitim kurumlarında görev yapan 25 öğretmen, 15 yönetici ve çocukları bu okullara devam eden 14 veli katılmıştır. Verisi yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile top...
This quantitative study examined the relationships between four types of parenting attitudes and adult separation anxiety among 493 parents of children attending preschool. Independent-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation revealed that parental educational levels were related to significant differences among all four parenting att...
The aim of this study is to examine preschool teachers' attitudes towards teaching profession in terms
of different variables. The sample of the study consisted of 417 preschool teachers. The Personal Information Form
and the Attitude Scale of Teaching Profession were used to collect data. At the end of the study, it was found that the
preschool te...
Data for this phenomenological study of preschoolers’ prejudices were collected through an interview protocol developed by the researchers. The participants, selected using purposeful sampling, were 100 four- to six-year-old children from Van, Turkey. For data analysis, coders looked firstly at word or phrase repetition, and then at the connectors...
A better gender balance is seen as an important factor for the future
development of the ECEC work force. But are parents willing to
accept men as teachers and carers for their children? What do
parents expect from male ECEC professionals, and do attitudes of
parents differ in relation to cultural backgrounds? This crosscultural study analyses pare...
This qualitative study examined 287 Turkish children's school experiences and sought to connect such experiences to their overall feelings about school. A semi-structured interview protocol derived from Ladd, Kochenderfer, and Coleman’s [1996. “Friendship Quality as a Predictor of Children’s Early School Adjustment.” Child Development 67 (3): 1103–...
This survey-based quantitative study investigates 310 Turkish preschool teachers’ views about classroom management, using the following six models of disciplinary strategy: behavioral change theory, Dreikurs’ social discipline model, Canter’s assertive discipline model, the Glasser model of discipline, Kounin’s model, and Gordon’s teacher effective...
The purpose of this study was to describe to what extent four preschool teachers in Turkey have developmentally appropriate beliefs and practices related to two dimensions of classroom management. The participants of the study were four female teachers working in Ankara. The data of this study were collected through a demographic information protoc...
This mixed-methods research compared job satisfaction among counselors working in pre-schools and primary-schools. Its quantitative phase included 223 counselors, 70 of whom also participated in the qualitative phase. A demographic information form, job-satisfaction scale and a semi-structured interview protocol were used to collect data. Quantitat...
This two-phase mixed-methods study compares the job satisfaction of Turkish preschool teachers who are paid hourly against the satisfaction of those on regular contracts. The participants in its first, quantitative phase were 260 preschool teachers, of whom 81 also participated in the second, qualitative phase. Initial data collection from all phas...
As shown by prior research, parents want to know if the parenting advice given to them by preschool teachers is actually followed by those teachers with their own children. This qualitative study of the views of 50 preschool teachers addresses this question directly. A semi-structured interview protocol developed by the researchers was used to coll...
As shown by prior research, parents want to know
if the parenting advice given to them by preschool teachers is actually
followed by those teachers with their own children. This qualitative study of
the views of 50 preschool teachers addresses this question directly. A
semi-structured interview protocol developed by the researchers was used to
coll...
This paper reports on the adaptation of the Teacher Beliefs Scale of the Teacher Beliefs and Practices Survey (Kim & Buchanan, 2009) for use in Turkey. Testing of the new Turkish-language version, known as
the Developmentally Appropriate Practice Teacher Beliefs Scale (DAP-TBS), was conducted via a survey of 686 preschool teachers for exploratory f...
Bu çalışmanın amacı, okul öncesi eğitim kurumlarında ve ilkokul kademesinde görev
yapan rehber öğretmenlerin mesleki tükenmişliklerinin karşılaştırılmasıdır. Tarama modelinde
planlanan bu çalışmanın katılımcılarını, okul öncesi eğitim kurumlarında görev yapan 72 ve
ilkokul kademesinde görev yapan 143 rehber öğretmen olmak üzere toplamda 215 rehber...
Early care and education settings and practices vary widely across the world. In many cultures, it is most common for families to provide round-the-clock care for young children. Other young children are in private or religious preschools, child care, or—more rarely—public early childhood education systems. Wherever young children spend the first f...
Behaviour management is vital to the establishment and maintenance of a positive classroom
environment and to children’s development of self-control. In the classroom-management literature,
there have been numerous studies of sub-topics such as rules, classroom-management strategies,
and reward-and-punishment systems. This study looked at the actua...
Classroom management helps teachers establish and maintain an appropriate environment for the
achievement of teaching and learning goals. To create this environment, it is crucial that they be able to
effectively prevent or minimize classroom misbehaviors. Many teachers still use traditional rewards and
punishments rooted in behaviorism and teacher...
There are disadvantages as well as advantages to the use of computers, and early childhood teachers have an important role to play in the appropriate incorporation of computer technology into learning. To fulfill this role, they not only need to have the skills and knowledge to implement this relatively new way of learning, but also to have a posit...
This study examines parenting attitudes towards children aged between 4 and 6 using an explanatory mixed-methods design. Initially, quantitative data was gathered from 258 parents using the Parents’ Attitude Scale (PAS), and then interviews were conducted with 20 of them to collect additional qualitative data to explain the quantitative results. Th...
Theme and strands: Professionalism & teachers’ role
The aim of the research: To determine what preschool teachers do for the children of divorce to help them adjust to their new situation.
Theoretical framework: Divorce profoundly influences the lives of young children. It is often associated with behavioral, emotional and academic issues that affe...
Theme and strands: International research in ECEC
The aim of the research: To ascertain the key differences between U.S. and Turkish preschool teachers’ classroom-management practices.
Theoretical framework: Classroom management is a multi-dimensional construct consisting of organizing the physical environment, planning and programming activities,...
This article reports on a comparison of male and female early childhood teachers’ beliefs and self-reported practices related to behavior management (BM). The respondents comprised 46 male and 46 female teachers, and independent-samples t-tests were conducted to compare beliefs and self-reported practices about BM strategies across these two groups...
This study compares the views of the concept of school readiness held by 50 pre-service preschool teachers and 50 pre-service primary teachers. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview protocol, and the word-list and key-words-in-context techniques were used for qualitative data analysis. Findings show that pre-service preschool teac...
Teachers’ beliefs shape their decisions, and therefore have profound implications for the classroom. In particular, their beliefs related to their self-efficacy influence their own and their pupils’ performances. Another factor that strongly affects classroom processes is classroom management, and research shows that there is a relationship between...
This study aims to describe views of pre-service preschool teachers about Montessori and Reggio Emilia
Approaches. Participants of the study were 30 pre-service preschool teachers who attended “Modern
Approaches to Early Childhood Education” course. Data of the study was collected through reflection papers
written by participants. At the end of dat...
Preschool education is crucial for children's development. One of the most important partners in this period are parents thus, their views about preschool education influence success of preschool education. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the views of parents about preschool education. The participants were 35 parents whose child...
School readiness is an important concern for parents and teachers because it is a multifaceted process which encompasses all the developmental areas and various skills of children rather than only focusing on cognitive and literacy skills. In particular, preschool and first grade teachers experience the positive and negative sides of the process of...
The purpose of this study is to describe the perceptions of early childhood teachers about the influence of physical environment on their instruction process and behavior management practices. Twenty-two female early childhood teachers participated in the study; eleven teachers from the public sector and eleven from private schools. A researcher-de...
In Turkey in the preschool sector there are fewer male teachers than female teachers. The views of female colleagues are one factor that affects the entry of males to this sector. This study investigated female preschool pre-service teachers’ views about male teachers. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and content analysis w...
The importance of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Turkey is growing and research into ECE is necessary for the development of a solid knowledge bank on which to base educational and training programs. In this study 410 dissertations and theses from the National Dissertation and Thesis database were analyzed in terms of variables including public...
Problem Statement: The physical environment of the classroom has an impact on various components of the teaching and learning processes. Recently, there has been research into the relationship between classroom management and the physical environment in elementary schools. However, the focus of these studies was only on one dimension of the physica...
Etkili bir eğitim-öğretim süreci için, sınıf yönetimi konusu, tartışılması gereken önemli konulardan biridir. Etkili bir sınıf yönetimi; öğrenmenin gerçekleştiği bir çevrenin oluşturulabilmesi için sınıfın fiziksel ortamının düzenlenmesini, öğrenme düzen ve süreçlerin planlanmasını ve öğrenmenin verimli olabilmesi için kuralların ve sınıf içi harek...
