COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DEMOCRACY EDUCATION AND PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY IN PRIMARY TEACHER EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISÖ 6065 DEMOCRACY EDUCATION AND PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY IN PRIMARY TEACHER EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Primary Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HANIFE KESKIN

Offered to

Primary Teacher Education

Course Objective

Democratic Education; forms with the principles of equality and freedom, supports the richnes of the diversity, and contains the events which has the ability of keeping groups of different individuals together.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Able to earn and learn how to tolerate and pluralism.
2   Able to tutor students about the means of election and to be chosen in the culture of democracy
3   Able to participate.
4   Able to communicate.
5   Able to embrace the democratic leadership.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course Introduction
2 Democracy and Education Relationship
3 Role of the Education in a Democratic Communities
4 Democratic Education and Democratic School
5 Culture of Democratic Schools
6 Sufficiency of Democratic Education and School Culture
7 Sufficiency of School Administration in Democratic School Culture
8 General review, course evaluation, midterm exam
9 Sufficiency of Teacher in Democratic School Culture
10 Sufficiency of Student in Democratic School Culture
11 Sufficiency of Parent in Democratic School Culture
12 Sufficiency of Education Process in Democratic School Culture
13 Human Rights and Fredom in Democracy Education
14 Problems of Democracy Education in Turkey
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Karakütük, k.(2001) Demokratik ve Laik Eğitim,Ankara: Anı yayıcılık
Şişman, M. (2002) Eğitimde mükemmellik arayışı: Etkili Okullar, Ankara: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık
Üstündağ, T. (2006). Yaratıcılığa Yolculuk. Ankara: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık
Bilgen,N.H. (1994), Çağdaş ve Demokratik Eğitim: Ders Geçme ve kredi uygulaması, Ankara,Milli Eğitim Basımevi
Bilgin, Nuri, (1997). Cumhuriyet, Demokrasi, Kimlik, Istanbul :Bağlam Yayınları
Yeşil, R. (2002) Okul ve Aile, Insan Hakları ve Demokrasi Eğitimi, Ankara: Nobel Yayınları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Seminar, Debate, Presentation, Question and Answer, Research, Group Study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is obligated to continue to at least 70% of lessons .
Every trial to copying will be finalized with disciplinary proceedings.
The instructor has right to make quizzes. The scores obtained from quizzes will be directly added to exam scores.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hanife.keskin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparing assignments 10 4 40
Preparing presentations 10 4 40
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.155355255534
LO.254245255423
LO.341134153334
LO.455244255423
LO.542234253334