TY  - JOUR
T1  - School Principals’ and Teachers’ Problems related to the Education of Refugee Students in Turkey
AU  - Toker Gokce, Asiye
AU  - Acar, Erdal
PY  - 2018
DA  - July
DO  - 10.12973/eu-jer.7.3.473
JF  - European Journal of Educational Research
JO  - eujer
PB  - Eurasian Society of Educational Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2165-8714
SP  - 473
EP  - 484
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
LA  - en
AB  - The aim of this study is to determine the problems, thesolutions and the suggestions of the school principals and teachers towards theSyrian refugee students in the primary schools in Turkey. The research group ofthe study included four school principals and six teachers. The research wasconducted by qualitative methods. The results revealed that the schoolprincipals mostly live communication, adaptation, accreditation, absenteeism,psychological and financial problems related to Syrian refugee students.Teachers also have problems such as communication problems with these students.Principals have opened ‘support rooms’ for these students; have worked foradaptation of these students, have been in contact with the families. Theteachers opened literacy courses and worked to socialize these students withtheir classmates.Both principals and teachers have primarily proposed the creation of specific curricula for these students and the activities to solve the problem of language and cohesion for these students.
KW  - Migration
KW  - Syrian refugees
KW  - refugees
KW  - refugee education
KW  - Turkey
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.7.3.473
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/515407
ER  -