Sungu, Hilmi and Bayrakci, Mustafa
(2015)
A POLICY ANALYSIS ON RECENT 12-YEAR-COMPULSORY
EDUCATION LAW IN TURKEY.
PROCEEDINGS 3rd REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.
pp. 137-141.
Abstract
Education is an essential process to train and guide the future generations. This
process must be organized to guarantee quality learning environments which provide
all the students to be equipped with the intended skills. Maintaining the education
process effectively would give the opportunity to the nations to supply prospective
required qualified manpower. Turkey is one of these nations considering education as
way to bring up qualified individuals and develops educational policies based on this
objective. Turkish educational system has experienced a recent reform introducing
12-year-compulsory education. Until 2012, the children were obliged to take eight
year primary education. In 2012, current legislation which is also known as 4+4+4
has been introduced; that is 4 years of primary, 4 years of lower secondary and 4
years of upper secondary education. The current reform has caused drastic changes
which influence the whole system profoundly. To illustrate, the children’s starting age
to primary schools, the duration of the primary and lower secondary education, the
set and content of the courses given during primary and secondary education have all
been redesigned. However, these radical changes in the system have been done all of
a sudden, without making any pilot study. Thus, the reform have been started to be
criticized heavily even if there are supporting views. This is a theoretical study based
on formal documents and experiences and aims to submit a policy analysis of the
recent education reform realized in Turkey, discussing the strong and weak points
upon the first year of its implementation.
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