Yasar Kondakci

Middle East Technical University | METU · Department of Educational Sciences

Decades of research form an extensive body of knowledge on International Collaboration in Research (IRC). However, experiential perspectives of the operative core (the academics) in research collaboration, remained relatively uninvesti-gated. Besides, explorations on how academics in peripheral countries accomplish IRC are still very limited. Final...

This chapter addresses the state of Citizen-centered policy making (CPM) in the Turkish Education System (TES) by drawing and theorizing on the policy making cycle. Once elaborating on key approaches for CPM and describing the key challenges in CPM, the chapter discusses CPM approaches and practices in education. The chapter argues that over-centra...

Policy brief on COVID-19 and global student mobility flows presents a study of ISM flows at the EU and global levels. It synthesizes critical facts on how COVID-19 has impacted ISM flows and makes recommendations to several key stakeholders, including the European Commission and its affiliated agencies, as well as national and local governments tha...

Higher education has a global structure including the influence of international trends. Such international composition naturally enrich diversity in universities. No doubt, generating diversified leadership team can help to establish scholarly environment in universities. Within this environment, scholarship of teaching and learning could be one o...

h i g h l i g h t s Technology leadership paved the way for technology integration through contributing to trust and enabling structure. Receiving ICT training promoted teachers' computer self-efficacy in class applications more than their attitudes. Teacher self-efficacy played a stronger role in promoting their technology integration behaviors th...

University–industry relationship has always been disputable in higher education. The affiliated Technology Development Zones (TDZs) of universities are proposed as the most viable form of university–industry relationship, and countries have invested extensive public monies in TDZs. However, concerns have been raised regarding the structures of TDZs...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hequ.12433 Higher education (HE) in the changing context requires leadership training and development as a vital element for university governance and innovation. While there are several theoretical frameworks on leadership development, most of them are outcome evaluation-oriented. Consequently, there is...

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The Covid-19 health crisis has had a remarkable impact on higher education. In the post-Covid era, many scholars and institutions have been reviewing the impact of this health crisis on higher education. Although some scholars use the statement of “going back” to the usual conduct of pre-covid, the crisis left a remarkable impact on the structural...

This study aims to explore the factors contributing to the perceived preparedness of graduate students for responsible conduct of research (RCR). A convergent mixed design was used, and both interview and quantitative data were collected, analyzed, and integrated to understand the role of individual and institutional factors in the perceived RCR pr...

Globalizing forces in higher education put growing pressure on both institutions and academics worldwide to become engaged in international research collaboration (IRC). Similarly, in Türkiye, the recent governmental and institutional strategies have been ambitiously promoting academics’ endeavors toward IRC. This study examines factors influencing...

The internationalization of higher education (IHE) has become a key policy issue for governments, a research field for scholars, a strategic priority for universities, and a career orientation for administrative staff. Yet, with recent social, political, and economic trends heavily embellished by globalization and neoliberalism, the term IHE has re...

This chapter introduces openness in education and open educational resources (OER) in Turkey. To better understand and conceptualize the Turkish case, there is a need to briefly introduce Turkish HE and how openness is perceived by Turkish Society. By 2021, the total population of Turkey is around 85 million and approximately 10% of its population...

El proyecto europeo Empower Teachers for Remote Online Assessments in Higher Education (‘Empoderar al profesorado para la evaluación en línea en educación superior’) (Remote.EDU) (2021-2023) aborda la necesidad todavía emergente de establecer, fomentar y promover la evaluación en línea en la educación superior. Las cuatro universidades participante...

The purpose of the study is to examine metaphors that are used to explain university-industry relations. Metaphors are a lucrative qualitative tool in organizational analysis because extracting and interpreting metaphors that are used by participants in an organization can not only allow researchers to access hidden perceptions or feelings of the p...

Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education cannot be put into practice without considering institutional contexts, which differ not only globally but also within the same country. Each institutional context provides educators with opportunities or limitations where Open Educational Practices (OEP) and OER for teaching and learning are inv...

Higher education (HE) provides a unique opportunity to accomplish social and economic integration and mitigate the impact of displacement for forcibly displaced migrants (FDMs) in the long run. Against this backdrop, the purpose of the study is to explore the HE experiences of Syrian FDMs in Turkey. Utilizing snowball sampling, 24 FDMs in Turkey we...

Higher education governance and policy. Higher education governance and policy. Higher education governance and policy.

Purpose As a borrowed concept, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education holds limited relevance in many country contexts. This study investigates how school administrators in Turkey view STEM education from three dimensions: (a) their understanding of STEM education, (b) their experiences of STEM implementations, and (c) t...

This paper explores faculty’s perspectives and use of open educational resources (OER) and their repositories across diferent countries by conducting a multiple case study to fnd similarities and diferences between academics’ awareness, perceptions and use of OER, as well as examining related aspects of institutional policy and quality that may inf...

This chapter elaborates on the problems and pitfalls surrounding the principalship in Turkey. The chapter, first documents the forces of change surrounding the Turkish education system and relevance of these forces on the school principalship. The milieu of education as represented in political, sociological and administrative dimensions is discuss...

This study is part of a larger research project on the needs and experiences of graduate students concerning research and publication ethics. Ethical violations in publication and research processes cause harm to the institutions, academic fields, and individual researchers themselves. Among other reasons, inadequate formal training and resulting i...

Bu çalışma, lisansüstü öğrencilerin araştırma ve yayın etiğine yönelik ihtiyaçlarını ve deneyimlerini inceleyen daha geniş kapsamlı bir projenin parçasıdır. Araştırma ve yayın süreçlerindeki etik ihlaller kurumlara, akademik alanlara ve araştırmacılara zarar veren bir olgudur. Diğer nedenlerin yanında, araştırma ve yayın etiği ile ilgili yetersiz e...

As the 17th biggest economy in 2018, Turkey is one of the emerging countries in the global economy. Turkey recently released an ambitious vision of becoming one of the top ten economies in the world in its centenary date, 2023, which urges a transformation of economic structures in the country. Hence, the government has introduced several change in...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of study abroad on identity development among Azerbaijani academics. The results suggest that study abroad has had a transformative impact on the new generation of academic professionals, who have become local agents, practitioners, and transmitters of values and professional conduct at home. T...

The pressure on the universities to take a visible place in the rankings has caused anachronistic policies and practices in evaluating the performance of universities. The value attributed to the rankings results in policies prioritizing the criteria imposed by rankings while evaluating the performance of academics, which successively causes severa...

Internationalization in higher education (IHE) has been a policy issue for countries and a strategicorientation for individual universities. Historically, internationalization has always been a part of the univer-sity. In the traditional, face-to-face education, internationalization has specific rationales and meaningsfor countries, universities an...

Decades of research suggest that the role of leaders in mitigating the negative impact of social and economic problems on the students is highly contentious one and more analyses in different cultural contexts are necessary to clarify the role of leadership in disadvantaged school settings. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of leade...

本文阐述高等教育背景下开放教育的内容。文章首先介绍开放教育的起源及其理论基础，随后根据远程开放学习研究的宏观、中观和微观层次框架讨论远程开放学习、开放教育实践、开放学术、开放教育资源、慕课、先前学习认定、学习者特征和开放教育国际化等主题的内容。最后从宏观、中观和微观层面提出今后的研究方向。

This paper explores elements of open education within the context of higher education. After an introduction to the origins of open education and its theoretical foundations, the topics of open and distance learning, international education issues in open education, open educational practices and scholarship, open educational resources, MOOCs, prio...

This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project "Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures-EduArc", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources (or (O)ER) framed...

Purpose This review aims to discuss the meaning of organizational change, change dynamics, and the current state of debates on organizational change in schools. The core purpose of this review is not only to restate the literature on organizational change in schools but also to challenge the current theoretical understanding of change in schools by...

It is generally understood that a stable external environment around educational organizations is a thing of the past. Currently, in the 21st century, educational organizations are living in highly volatile environments, and various political, economic, social, demographic, and ecological forces are putting pressure on these organizations to change...

Political, economic and ecological upheavals accompanied by developments in transportation and communication around the globe have created a constant flow of people from one country context to another. Although it is very difficult to measure the size and direction of international migration, estimates by the International Organization for Migratio...

This study investigates Turkey’s higher education (HE) policy for Syrian refugee students (SRSs) by examining the experiences of the students and documenting political, social and cultural dynamics behind these experiences. The study reviewed reports, notices and circulars in order to capture the key tenets of the Turkeys HE policy for the Syrians...

Constant pressures emanating from internal and external environments of the academy have resulted in many changes, one of which is the workplace mobbing, an old issue for the broader field of organization science but a relatively new phenomenon in the academic context. This study investigated the relationship between workplace mobbing and academic...

Constant pressures emanating from internal and external environments of the academy have resulted in many changes, one of which is the workplace mobbing, an old issue for the broader field of organization science but a relatively new phenomenon in the academic context. This study investigated the relationship between workplace mobbing and academic...

Theorizing on the Affective Events Theory this study aims at (1) exploring the relationships among trust, change-related positive and negative affect, commitment to change, and job satisfaction and, (2) investigating their impacts on the change implementation behaviors of teachers in the second-order educational change context. The study was design...

Article Info This study investigates the role of content, context and process variables in the socialization of new faculty members. The study was designed as a phenomenological study and utilized interview as the data collection technique. A total number of 40 new faculty members working in 12 different public universities in Turkey participated i...

The issue of higher education (HE) refugee and migration has received scant attention in sociological and geographical research (Banks, 2017; Brooks and Waters, 2011; Collins, 2010). Economic crises and wars especially in the Middle East and political upheavals in various world regions have stimulated mass movements of displaced persons, and refuge...

Purpose Drawing on and theorizing continuous change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of continuous change behavior in schools. Relying on conceptual discussions about organizational change (OC), three sets of variables including context (workload, participatory management, trust), process (knowledge sharing, social inter...

Leadership for social justice has been receiving increasing attention in recent years as more and more scholars have explored the ways by which educational leaders can lead for social justice in schools. It is widely claimed that social justice leaders serve traditional marginalised societies, dismantle long standing norms that privilege certain st...

The main purpose of this paper is to present the current condition of the refugees in higher education with a specific emphasis on Syrian refugees in Turkish higher education (HE) system. We argued that understanding Turkey’s policies towards the refuges necessitates bringing the geographical, historical, cultural and social background of the count...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between student achievement and a set of school-level variables, including distributed leadership, academic optimism, teacher collaboration and enabling school structure. The study was designed as correlational research. A Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analysis was conducted with a...

Turkey possess one of the most vibrant educational systems in the World. This study specifically aims at revealing Turkish school principals’ perceptions about the large-scale changes imposed by the Ministry of Education and the strategies they follow for coping with these changes. The study was designed as a generic qualitative study. Twenty princ...

This chapter aims to elaborate on the leadership properties in the transformation in higher education across the world by advancing specific illustration from the Turkish higher education context. Three specific objectives were identified around this broad aim: (1) document the current forces of change surrounding HEIs, (2) identify the culture shi...

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This chapter aims to elaborate on the leadership properties in the transformation in higher education across the world by advancing specific illustration from the Turkish higher education context. Three specific objectives were identified around this broad aim: (1) document the current forces of change surrounding HEIs, (2) identify the culture shi...

This chapter provides an overview on the organization and practice of open and distance learning (ODL) in the context of higher education in Turkey with regard to its historical, legal, organizational and social context and role. Also addressing current student enrolments in ODL and touching upon its major institutions, this overview closes with a...

Providing financial and social supports to students is a common policy practice in many countries. Scholarships and basic services (food, accommodation, transportation, free health services etc.) are the most common supports provided to students. Particularly developing countries which follow quantitative growth policies in higher education need mo...

Research on the patterns of international student mobility and the dynamics shaping these patterns has been dominated by studies reflecting a Western orientation, discourse, and understanding. Considering political, economic, cultural, historical, and ecological factors, this study argues that international student mobility is not only an issue of...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Openness to Violation of Ethical Decision (OVED) scale, which measures teachers’ openness to violation of their own ethical decision under the influence of key constituencies at the school including students, managers, colleagues and parents. In the development process, reviewing the related...

Dissatisfaction from the current schooling alternatives has been the basic driver behind the search for an alternative schooling system among parents in Turkey. Being concerned about the quality of available public and private schooling alternatives, a group of parents has initiated an alternative schooling system which is based on different struct...

Providing financial and social supports to students is a common policy practice in many countries. Scholarships and basic services (food, accommodation, transportation, free health services etc.) are the most common supports provided to students. Particularly developing countries which follow quantity oriented growth policies in higher education ne...

This study analyses the functioning of a school as a social system in an atypical context with the purpose of generating propositions to tackle educational problems confronted by socially and economically disadvantaged groups attending these schools. Adopting the constructivist grounded theory, the analysis suggests that there is a kind of “vicious...

In recent decades, internationalization within higher education has emerged as a distinct field for practice and research. However, there are few meta-analyses of how the research trends and foci of this topic have evolved and shifted over time. This article analyzes the content of the Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE), a central...

The aim of this study was to test a model of school effectiveness accounting on the relationship between student achievement and a set of variables including distributed leadership, teacher collaboration, enabling school structure and academic optimism. The participants consisted of 23053 students and 426 teachers from randomly selected 40 public s...

Educational policy borrowing has become rather common in our globalised world. However, the literature lacks contextual criteria that may be employed by researchers and policy makers to assess the correspondence of a particular policy to the local context of a borrowing system. Based on a secondary analysis of documents and research reports, this p...

The young and dynamic population of Turkey makes it one of the most vibrant countries for tertiary education in the world. As a result, Turkish tertiary education has experienced a rapid expansion in the number of tertiary institutions, of academic staff members, and student participation rates in higher education, which is a result of the growing...

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This study aims at building a theoretical base for continuous change in education and using this base to test the mediating roles of two key contextual variables, knowledge sharing and trust, in the relationship between the distributed leadership perceptions and continuous change behaviours of teachers. Data were collected from 687 public school te...

Although English-speaking countries are still the main destination of international students, several regional hubs have emerged as new destinations for these students. The current incoming international student population suggests that Turkey is one of these newly emerging regional hubs. In particular, students from the Balkans choose Turkey as a...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational socialization and various organizational (type of university, training, work conditions, knowledge sharing) and individual (academic degree, teaching experience, length of employment at current work place, job satisfaction, commitment, self-efficacy) level factors, both factors...

In many countries, open and distance education is perceived as a way to meet the growing need for higher education. This paper explores the development of online and distance education in three countries that are still a white spot on the landscape of international distance education research although they have implemented elaborated distance educa...

Describing the perception of discipline for teachers from teachers’ perspectives constitutes the purpose of this study. For that purpose, answers for the questions below have been sought: i.What does perception of discipline mean to you? ii.What does perception of student discipline mean to you? iii. What is your sense of discipline you want to con...

The Turkish Enlightenment process started in the last century of Ottoman Empire and become more distinctive along with the changeover to a Turkish Republic in 1920s. Certainly, education took an important part in this enlightenment process. The basic purpose of education is to create an ideal Turkish community, which could catch up basics of modern...

This chapter elaborates on the conceptual and empirical bases of continuous change, a newly developing perspective of organizational change, and brings this new perspective of organizational change to the attention of change scholars and practitioners in educational organizations. Rather than conceptualizing change as a macro-level discrete set of...

Theorizing on the role of teacher attitudes in change effectiveness, this study examined the predictive value of context (trust), process (social interaction, participative management and knowledge sharing) and outcome (job satisfaction and workload perception) variables for cognitive, emotional and intentional readiness of teachers for change. The...

Türkiye'de eğitim yönetimi alanında üretilen bilimsel bilgi birikimi belli bir seviyeye ulaşmıştır. Bununla birlikte başka ülkelerin sosyal, ekonomik, politik ve eğitimsel bağlamında geliştirilen teori, model ve uygulamaları eğitim yönetimi çalışmalarında esas almak bizi taklitte boğulmaya götürmektedir. Kendi eğitimsel sorunlarımızdan yola çıkarak...

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Purpose – Considering student achievement in a nation-wide examination as an indicator of school effectiveness, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the common characteristics across nine highly performing schools. Design/methodology/approach – The study was designed as a multiple-case study. Semi-structured interviews with teachers and adm...

This study aims to reveal key drivers behind corporate contributions to public education in Turkey. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior executives of 13 private firms, which have been contributing to public education. Results indicated that the firms’ contributions are not aligned with their strategic orientations or dominant busi...