Teacher Education Accreditation in Turkey: The Creation of a Culture of Quality

Turkey's experience in developing and piloting accreditation criteria and national standards for teacher education is examined. The full implementation of an accreditation process for teacher education programs was not completed within the time of the development project. However, the effort to...

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Published inInternational journal of educational development Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 102 - 109
Main Authors Grossman, Gary M, Sands, Margaret K, Brittingham, Barbara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier 01.01.2010
Subjects
Accreditation (Institutions)
Development projects
Educational Change
Educational Development
Educational Environment
Educational Policy
Evaluation Criteria
Foreign Countries
National Standards
Professional training
Professors
Program Development
School Culture
Schools of Education
Teacher Education Programs
Teacher Educators
Turkey
Turkey
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Summary:Turkey's experience in developing and piloting accreditation criteria and national standards for teacher education is examined. The full implementation of an accreditation process for teacher education programs was not completed within the time of the development project. However, the effort to do so encouraged the formation of a "quality culture" in the faculties of education. The paper discusses what took place and analyses the later response of teacher educators to the introduction of accreditation criteria and the way in which they were introduced. Educators largely welcomed national standards and accreditation, but wished to have flexible means of implementation. (Contains 9 tables.)
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ISSN:0738-0593
DOI:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.08.003