The Situation of Lifelong Education in Turkey

Year 2015, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 21 - 31, 01.05.2015

Osman Titrek , M. Ali Özkorkmaz Alaattin Gülmez

Abstract

The life of individual’s after formal education, to acquire the knowledge and skills that our time require for the people who didn’t get the formal education can be possible through non-formal education. Therefore, the importance of non-formal education has begun more and more important recently. The aim of this research is to examine the condition of public education centers, to identify the problems and find solutions to them. In this research, priority, the conditions of public education centers have been identified. Also, the structures of the courses and trainees and their distribution across the country, the courses and their features, the features of the trainers who have worked in these courses have been analyzed. Secondly; the problems of public education and the issue of how can these problems be solved emphasized.

Keywords

Non Formal Education, Public Education, Adult Education

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