Investigating Attitudes towards Refugee Students based on Several Variables: Revised Version of Refugee Student Attitude Scale
Abstract
The immigration movement sometimes causes a sudden demographic
complexity for countries and then leads to the development and implementation
of urgent public policies. The most important one of these urgent policy areas
in the long term is education. Countries, especially in cases of foreign migration,
international aid organizations provide food, shelter, heating, and so on at
the first place, and then aim to ensure linguistic, cultural, and social
cohesion of migrants. At this stage, the contribution of hosting teachers and
school administrators to attitudes towards migrants and inclusive education
policies is a key to the efficient functioning of the process. In this study,
attitudes towards refugee students of teachers from Sanliurfa, one of Turkey's
most populated-refugee cities, is investigated based on several variables. For
the purpose, Refugee Student Attitude Scale (RSAS), developed by Sağlam and
Kanbur (2017), was updated via EFA and CFA analyzes and then analyzed by
MANOVA. It was found that attitudes of the young female teachers towards “communication”
and “adaptation” were higher than male teachers; in contrast, male teachers
working for long years were better in their “communication” and “competency”
attitudes than female teachers. Furthermore, teachers with many years of
teaching experience who have refugee students in their classs have higher in
“communication” and “adaptation” attitudes.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ragıp Terzi
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0000-0003-3976-5054
Türkiye
Ahmet Göçen
0000-0002-9376-2084
Türkiye
Bilal Altun
This is me
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 30, 2019
Submission Date
February 12, 2019
Acceptance Date
September 24, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 9 Number: 3
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