What matters for rural teachers and communities? Educational challenges in rural Turkey

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2018

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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

This research aims to unearth the educational challenges experienced by teachers and communities in rural Turkey. The research employs Nancy Fraser's three dimensional justice approach - distribution, recognition and participation - to frame these challenges and to argue that rural challenges go beyond economic rationalities and concerns of infrastructure and resources. The study draws its data from 29 in-depth interviews with 20 teachers working in 16 different villages; 9 interviews with community members; and 2 focus group interviews, 1 with rural dwelling women and the other with rural dwelling men. The findings point out four significant difficulties that impede community and educational development: scarcity of resources; insufficient understanding of social, cultural and economic contexts that constrain educational attempts; lack of collaboration between teacher and communities; and irrelevant education. The study concludes by scrutinising how these difficulties interact with one another and result in marginalisation or casting out of rural lives.

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Rural education, Nancy Fraser, Turkey, rural community, rural teacher

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Compare-A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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N/A

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48

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5

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