What matters for rural teachers and communities? Educational challenges in rural Turkey
COMPARE-A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, cilt.48, sa.5, ss.686-701, 2018 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 48 Sayı: 5
- Basım Tarihi: 2018
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/03057925.2017.1340150
- Dergi Adı: COMPARE-A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.686-701
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Rural education, Nancy Fraser, Turkey, rural community, rural teacher, CAPABILITIES APPROACH, BASIC EDUCATION, JUSTICE, CHINA
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This research aims to unearth the educational challenges experienced by teachers and communities in rural Turkey. The research employs Nancy Fraser's three dimensional justice approach - distribution, recognition and participation - to frame these challenges and to argue that rural challenges go beyond economic rationalities and concerns of infrastructure and resources. The study draws its data from 29 in-depth interviews with 20 teachers working in 16 different villages; 9 interviews with community members; and 2 focus group interviews, 1 with rural dwelling women and the other with rural dwelling men. The findings point out four significant difficulties that impede community and educational development: scarcity of resources; insufficient understanding of social, cultural and economic contexts that constrain educational attempts; lack of collaboration between teacher and communities; and irrelevant education. The study concludes by scrutinising how these difficulties interact with one another and result in marginalisation or casting out of rural lives.