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Improving the Teacher Training Process in Special Education: An Action Research
Abstract
The special education teaching program in Turkey was united under a single roof with the decision taken by the Council of Higher Education in 2016. With this decision, the programs for teachers of the hearing impaired, the mentally disabled, the visually impaired and the gifted/special talented were organized as a new and single undergraduate program under the name of "Special Education Teaching". Within the scope of the research, it was aimed to improve the teacher training process in the new special education teaching program. For this purpose, the study was designed as an action research. The research was conducted at Anadolu University, Department of Special Education. The research participants included 19 faculty members, 24 undergraduate students, 12 special education teachers, one Ministry of National Education official and one Directorate of National Education official. Semi-structured interviews, participant information form, video recordings, documents and researcher diary were used as data collection techniques. The data obtained from the research were analyzed using a systematic analysis approach. As a result of the research, in the new special education teacher training program, arrangements were made in the areas needed in the teacher training process. Steps such as reorganizing the evaluation criteria and creating guidelines to determine the responsibilities of stakeholders are among these arrangements. With the Covid-19 pandemic, activities were carried out for material design and use in distance education and transfer of theoretical knowledge to the online teaching practice environment.
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Destekleyen Kurum
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Proje Numarası
Yok
Teşekkür
Yok
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Alan Eğitimleri
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Erken Görünüm Tarihi
25 Temmuz 2023
Yayımlanma Tarihi
28 Temmuz 2023
Gönderilme Tarihi
21 Şubat 2023
Kabul Tarihi
19 Nisan 2023
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2023 Cilt: 16 Sayı: 3
APA
Yılmaz, Y., & Gürgür, H. (2023). Improving the Teacher Training Process in Special Education: An Action Research. Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences, 16(3), 502-535. https://doi.org/10.30831/akukeg.1254380
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Uluslararası Türk Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi
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