Improving the Teacher Training Process in Special Education: An Action Research

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:Kuramsal eğitimbilim dergisi 2023-07, Vol.16 (3), p.502-535
Hauptverfasser: YILMAZ, Yunus, GÜRGÜR, Hasan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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. Özel eğitim öğretmenliği programı Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu Başkanlığı’nın 2016 yılında aldığı kararla tek çatı altında birleştirilmiştir. Bu karar ile birlikte işitme engelliler, zihin engelliler, görme engelliler ve üstün zekâlılar/özel yetenekliler öğretmenliği programları, “Özel Eğitim Öğretmenliği” adı altında yeni ve tek bir lisans programı olarak düzenlenmiştir. Araştırma kapsamında yeni özel eğitim öğretmenliği programında öğretmen yetiştirme sürecinin geliştirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla çalışma, eylem araştırması olarak desenlenmiştir. Araştırma Anadolu Üniversitesi Özel Eğitim Bölümünde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma katılımcıları arasında 19 öğretim üyesi, 24 lisans öğrencisi, 12 özel eğitim öğretmeni, bir MEB yetkilisi ve bir MEM yetkilisi yer almaktadır. Araştırma kapsamında veri toplama teknikleri olarak yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşme, katılımc
ISSN:1308-1659
1308-1659
DOI:10.30831/akukeg.1254380