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Articulations of Islamic Nationalism in the Educational Reform Discourse of 'New Turkey'
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Sen, Abdulkerim – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Turkey has become a powerful example of rising ethno-religious nationalism since the ruling Justice and Development Party allied with the Nationalist Movement Party in 2016. Conceptualising the political ideology in power as Islamic nationalism, I expose ways in which this ideology is articulated in the education reform discourse of 'new Turkey'…
Descriptors: Islam, Nationalism, Religious Factors, Ethnic Groups
A Metaphorical Analysis of Novice Teachers' Perceptions Concerning First Year in Teaching, Induction Process, School Administrators and Mentor Teacher
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Ishak Kozikoglu – Educational Research Quarterly, 2018
The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of novice teachers about the first year in teaching, induction process, school administrators and mentor teacher through metaphors. This research designed as a qualitative study was carried out with 120 novice teachers working in Van province, Turkey. The data of the research were obtained by a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Teacher Induction
The Rise and Fall of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Turkey
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Sen, Abdulkerim; Starkey, Hugh – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: This article shows the effects of competing political forces on citizenship education in Turkey during the period of commitment to European Union (EU) accession (1999-2005). Methodology: It draws on textbooks, archival documents and interviews. Whilst Turkey had a history of civic education to promote a secular national ethos and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Educational Trends
"The Right Things Are What I Expect Them to Do": Negotiation of Power Relations in an English Classroom
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Oral, Yasemin – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2013
Theoretically informed by a Foucauldian understanding of power, this article documents how power is exercised and resisted in an English-as-a-foreign-language context. In particular, the article focuses on individual seatwork, during which students were working individually on written exercises, as one of the three basic modes of teaching/learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Student Behavior, Second Language Learning
Linguistics of Power and Politeness in Turkish: Revelations from Speech Acts.
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Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran; Kamisli, Sibel – 1996
This study investigated the discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish in carrying out speech acts of correction and disagreement to status-unequal interlocutors. Focus was on: (1) the politeness markers preferred for softening the impact of words in face-threatening speech situations where the interlocutor corrects the mistake of an…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Effects of Social Power on Language Use Across Speech Communities.
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Kamisli, Sibel; Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Discusses the discourse strategies that status-unequal interlocutors use in expressing disagreement. Reveals semantic formulas as influenced by the role relationships and compares and contrasts the discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish and American English for the same speech event in order to obtain a cross-culture perspective.…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis