Internal and External Influences on Curriculum Reform in Citizenship Education in Turkey

Autor/in	Sen, Kerim
Titel	Internal and External Influences on Curriculum Reform in Citizenship Education in Turkey
Quelle	(2016), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Development; Educational Change; Civil Rights; Citizenship Education; Nationalism; Political Power; Foreign Countries; Group Membership; Democracy; Public Officials; Specialists; Nongovernmental Organizations; Boards of Education; Turkey; European Union + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsreform; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Nationalismus; Politische Macht; Ausland; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Demokratie; Ausschuss; Türkei
Abstract	In 2010 the Turkish Board of Education (BoE) introduced a new rights-based citizenship education course to supersede the previous civics courses that promoted nationalist-militarist norms and values. This paper explores the internal and external influences on this curriculum reform drawing on a dataset derived from semi-structured interviews with 16 officials involved in the reform and documents obtained from the BoE's archive. The analysis finds that the reform was initiated by the government's intent to achieve European Union membership and demonstrate democratization. It further reveals that external support for democratic citizenship education could be counter-productive in nationalist context where political power does not explicitly support the promotion of democracy and human rights in education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01