COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EYD 5570 COMPARATIVE EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Educational Administration and Supervision Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SEMIHA ŞAHIN

Offered to

Educational Administration and Supervision Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

Being able to define the development of comparative education, its aims and problems

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the development of comparative education, its aims and problems
2   Carry out comparative analysis of the factors affecting education
3   Discuss comparatively the problems in education
4   Evaluate the Turkish Education System with other education systems comparatively
5   Being able to explain comparatively the factors affecting education
6   Being able to discuss comparatively the problems in education
7   Being able to compare and contrast the Turkish education system with that of various countries and evaluate their similarities and differences

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the program
2 Definition of comparative education, its aims and problems
3 Comparative education in Türkiye and in the world: concept, scope, common rules and trends
4 Comparative analysis of the factors affecting education and educational problems
5 Structure of the Turkish education system
6 An overview of the education systems of the countries in the European Union
7 Education systems with a centralized management pattern: Turkish and French education systems
8 Mid-term exam
9 Education systems with a decentralized management pattern: English Education System, German Education System and Education System in the USA
10 Some other education systems with a decentralized management pattern
11 Education systems with a Centralized-decentralized management pattern: Japanese Education System, Norwegian Education System, Finnish Education System
12 Some other education systems with a centralized-decentralized management pattern
13 Problems in the Turkish Education System and evaluation of the course
14 Some other countries' educational systems of the central-local focus Turkish education system problems and evaluation of the course
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Ada, Sefer & Baysal, Z. Nurdan (2009). Eğitim Yapıları ve Yönetimleri Açısından Çeşitli Ülkelere Bir Bakış, Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
Sözer, Ersan (1997). Üç Avrupa Ülkesinde Eğitim: Almanya, Danimarka, Fransa Eğitim Sistemleri. Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Yayınları, No: 47.
Demirel, Özcan (2000). Karşılaştırmalı Eğitim. Ankara: Pegem A Yayıncılık.
Gürkan, Tanju ve Erten, Gökçe (1999). Türkiye'de ve Çeşitli Ülkelerde Ilköğretim Program-Öğrenci-Öğretmen. Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi.
Erdoğan, Irfan (2000). Çağdaş Eğitim Sistemleri. Istanbul: Sistem Yayıncılık
Gülcan, Murat Gürkan (2005). AB ve Eğitim Süreci. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık.
Ültanır, Gürcan (2000). Karşılaştırmalı Egitim Bilimi. Ankara: Eylül Kitabevi.
Erginer, Aysun. (2006). Avrupa Birliği Eğitim Sistemleri. Ankara: PegemA Yayıncılık.
Füsun Akarsu (ed) (2005). Ülkeler ve Eğitim Sistemleri Karşılaştırma Yazıları. Ankara: Nobel Yayın Dağıtım.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, group work, lecture, question-answer, cooperative learning techniques

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

semiha.sahin@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 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 112

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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