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Educational Research in Turkey

Whether it was the negotiations about the accession of Turkey to the European Union, the EU-Turkey Deal in the course of the European migrant crisis starting in 2015, or the attempted coup d`état in July 2016 with its aftermaths, including purges in the education and research sector - Turkey has often been a topic of discussion and interest in the European public sphere. In Germany, people with Turkish "migration background" together with...

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Turkish foreigners constitute the biggest community among people with migration background and foreigners as a whole (see German Federal Institute for Population Research: Migration, integration). One more reason for us in Germany to be interested in Turkey and Turkish people.
As mentioned above, people working in the education and research sector got alarmed in the aftermath of the attempted coup d`état of July 2016: News about dismissed teachers and researchers, about prohibition of official journeys or the assault of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak) ...

... through police forces convinced the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany of publishing a Statement on the situation of academics in Turkey.

In our webdossier, we want to throw a glance at educational research in Turkey. The information we compiled is divided into the following sections:

Professional Associations, Societies, Networks

international; Turkey
The website of the Turkish Educational Research Association (EAB) provides information on its goals, organisation and activities as well as on its 35 departments for different education sectors, including a list of researchers for each sector. Furthermore, you will find two open access journals in English - the [...]

international; Turkey
[The website has no English version anymore since about its relaunch in 2019. For older / static information about the association please take a look at an older version of the website in the webarchive.]
The [...]

international; Turkey
The website of the Turkish Educational Administration Research and Development Association (EARDA) provides information on their annual congresses including the fulltext of the proceedings (mainly in Turkish, sporadic English articles) as well as their English language journal ( [...]

international; Turkey
The English version of the website provides background information on the Turkish Association of Curriculum and Instruction (EPÖDER), a list of completed doctoral theses from 2003-2014 and an Open Access journal, the International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies (IJOCIS). This journal has some articles in [...]

Turkey
We link to the automatic Google translation of a list of associations in the education sector in Turkey. Among them, you will find professional associations in educational research as well as many educators' associations for different subjects. The educators' associations sometimes also have some information on research and [...]

Academic Institutes at Universities

Turkey; international
Istanbul University obviously has a new website. Unfortunately, the website of the Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education has no English version yet.
The website provides a project list and some information on research interests and publications on the professors' personal homepages. The [...]

Turkey; international
The Faculty has 12 departments and hence is probably one of the biggest if not the biggest faculty of education in Turkey (see the list at the end of this abstract).
Under "publications", you can find two e-journals published by the faculty, the [...]

Turkey; international
The Department of Educational Sciences of this Faculty seems to be identical to the Institute of Educational Sciences (for a list of further Faculty departments: see at the [...]

Turkey; international
You will find information on research (publications, projects, ...) on the staff's personal websites. A faculty journal doesn't seem to exist. The Faculty has 6 Departments:

* Department of Primary Education
* Department of Foreign Language Education
* Department of Fine Arts Education
* [...]

Turkey; international
The Faculty of Education at Hacettepe University has its own homepage. But as the faculty overview on the university site is more detailed and has more links [...]

Turkey; international
The website provides information on the three departments:
* Department of Basic Educatiom
* Department of Educational Sciences
* Department of Foreign Languages Education

The respective departments provide information and fulltexts of their publications (with an English abstract). The faculty [...]

Turkey; international
The Faculty of Education at Bilkent University has no homepage of its own. On the university's information website you can find the different programmes and degrees offered at the faculty.If you are looking for information on educational research, you can find some under these links:
* [...]

Turkey; international
The Child and Family Studies Laboratory belongs to the Department of Psychology at the Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities (GSSSH). Its website provides some information on research projects under "Research". Furthermore, you can find more information on publications and research projects in the CVs and the [...]

Turkey; international
The website provides access to the faculty's Boğaziçi University Journal of Education which appears twice a year, one issue in Turkish, one in English, in Open Access. Research is listed centrally on the university website under [...]

Turkey; international
Under "staff", you will find the staff's personal websites (each of which has to be switched into English again) with a very good documentation of their research interests, publications, projects and more. The Faculty has five departments:

* Computer and Educational Technology Education Department
* [...]

Research History, Themes & Trends

"This study aims to create a map for the scientific publications in the field of educational sciences and teacher education in Turkey. A bibliometric analysis was carried out with 7681 articles published in 32 different peer reviewed journals between 2005 and 2014. The findings show that one third of all articles were published in core journals determined by Bradford's Law [...]

"This study focused on educational research papers published from 2005-2009 in journals listed in SSCI and the ULAKBIM database in Turkey. Study types, research methods, investigated specific topics, used data collection tools, employed data analysis methods, and utilized types of samples and sampling methods were analyzed. A total of 2115 papers published in 19 Turkish [...]

Turkey
Short report about the state of educational research in Turkey, especially on the recent developpments before 2011. Author: Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, then Vice President of the Turkish Educational Research Association (Eğitim Araştırmaları Birliği, EAB), published in January 2011 on the website of the European [...]

international; Turkey
The Thesis Database of the Turkish Council of Higher Education provides a good overview over research in education in Turkey starting from 2012. As it is not possible to link to the result list directly, here a small explanation on how to get there: Under "Subject" choose "Eğitim ve Öğretim = Education and [...]

Journals

Here you can download a list of Turkish journals in educational research in an rtf format. The list provides information on the journal`s title, URL, language, the focus of the journal and the publishing institution. All journals are Open Access.

Please note that the list does not claim to be exhaustive.

Several Turkish platforms that list professional journals unfortunately don`t provide a search or filter to extract journals for educational research only.

This is the case with the following portals:

• DergiPark Project /Turkish JournalPark Academic

Here you can only filter for "Journals in Social Sciences and Humanities" Inside this category, you have to browse manually for journals in educational sciences.

• Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM)

This portal offers a list of journals in educational sciences, but the list cannot be linked to directly. Please click the follwoing on this website to get to the list: "Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Veri Tabanı (SBVT)" >> "Veri Tabanına Giren Dergi Listesi" >> "Eğitim Bilimleri"

• Index of Turkish Education

This index provides information and links to journals in the educational sector worldwide. Unfortunately, there is no possibility to filter journals from Turkey only. You have to go through the list manually.
We also link to two articles that analyse journal articles from the educational sciences and hence include a list of journals. A further link leads you to a list of journals provided on the website of the [Turkish] National Educational Congress UEBK 2016:

"This study aims to create a map for the scientific publications in the field of educational sciences and teacher education in Turkey. A bibliometric analysis was carried out with 7681 articles published in 32 different peer reviewed journals between 2005 and 2014. The findings show that one third of all articles were published in core journals determined by Bradford's Law [...]

"This study focused on educational research papers published from 2005-2009 in journals listed in SSCI and the ULAKBIM database in Turkey. Study types, research methods, investigated specific topics, used data collection tools, employed data analysis methods, and utilized types of samples and sampling methods were analyzed. A total of 2115 papers published in 19 Turkish [...]

international; Turkey
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We link to a list of Turkish journals in the field of educational research, translated autoamtically by Google Translator. The list was provided by the 25. National Congress for Educational Sciences (UEBK 2016) in Turkey. Participants in the congress could publish their [...]

Conferences

Turkey
Beginning 30.08.2016
The annual conference is organised by the Turkish Association of Curriculum and Instruction (EPÖDER). The abstract submission deadline is 30 August 2016. The conference will take place from 27 to 30 October 2016. The conference theme is "Curriculum Studies in Teacher Education". The sub-themes of the congress (but are not limited to): - Policies, [...]

Turkey
Beginning 01.09.2016
The bi-annual conference is organised by the Turkish Association of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology (EPODDER). The conference themes are: > Classroom assessment applications in schools > Large scale tests, high-stakes tests, selection and placement tests > Measurement theories and applications > Computer based applications of [...]

Turkey
Beginning 31.05.2016
The main theme of the 2016 conference was “Facing the Future: Roles and responsibilities in Education”. The website meanwhile provides links to the "EJERCongress 2016 Book of Abstracts" and the "EJERCongress 2016 Congress Program". Most of the papers and abstracts are in Turkish, a few are in English. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Turkey
Beginning 12.05.2016
Unfortunately, the website is only in Turkish. The conference is organised by the Turkish Educational Administration Research and Development Association (EARDA)/ Eğitim Yöneticileri ve Eğitim Denetçileri Derneği (EYEDDER). The website provides the conference programme as well as a pdf document of accepted papers including the fulltexts of the papers. No [...]

Turkey
Beginning 05.05.2016
This congress is organised annually by the Turkish Educational Research Association (Eğitim Araştırmaları Birliği, EAB). This year's conference theme was "Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Accreditation of Faculties of Education". The website doesn't give any information on the congress programm anymore. For information [...]

Turkey
Beginning 21.04.2016
This is the website of the 25. National Congress for Educational Sciences in Turkey with the motto "quest for innovation and quality in education science". The three panels of 2016 focus on: Panel 1: Research and Publication Issues in Educational Science Panel 2: Academic Ethics Panel 3: Migration and Education You can find information [...]

Special Focus: Inclusion & Disability

Turkey
Although this text is in German, it also provides some interesting links to English information about inclusion in Turkey as well as links and names of important Turkish institutions in this field. The Google Translator translates well enough so that you can understand the basic [...]

This link leads you to search results from the German Education Portal (FPP) on "inclusion / Turkey". The German Education Portal provides an integrated search over several databases in Germany and two international databases containing literature from the field of educational research. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

"Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) study was designed by the General Directorate of Disabled and Elderly People's Services of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies of Turkey and UNICEF Turkey as part of "There is Another You" project. This project aims to reduce the social distance between children with disabilities, their families and the general public. [...]