The school is a product of civilization. It became necessary because of the division of labor caused by the multiplication of the interests of mankind which made it impossible for the home to continue wholly to care for the training of its children. The history of education must not merely treat of the development of the school, but it must consider education in its broader meaning; that is, as a history of civilization. For this reason some of the great educators of the world who have not been school teachers, must receive consideration.

Türk Eğitim Sistemi ve Okul Yönetimi

Editörler: Prof. Dr. Ayla OKTAY

Yazarlar: Prof. Dr. Ayla OKTAY, Prof. Dr. Hoşcan ENSARİ, Prof. Dr. Muhsin HESAPÇIOĞLU, Prof. Dr. Ozana URAL, Doç. Dr. Rengin ZEMBAT, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Münevver MERTOĞLU, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Necla TUZCUOĞLU, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Oya RAMAZAN, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Semai TUZCUOĞLU, Dr. Aydın BALYER, Uzm Derya SARI, Araş. Gör. Elif SARICAN ESMER, Araş. Gör. Selma DÜNDAR

Bir öğretmen için eğitim sisteminin yapısını bilmek, meslekî çalışmalarını gerçekleştirirken son derece önemlidir. Öğretmenin başarısı, alan ve meslek bilgisinin yanında sistem içindeki çeşitli görev ve sorumluluklar ve öğretmen olarak alacağı rollerle çok yakından ilgilidir. Sistemin nasıl işlediğinin bilinmesi, öğretmenlerin özlük hakları açısından da önemlidir. Çağdaş insanın tanımında yer alan, hak ve sorumluluklarını bilen insan tanımı, öğretmenlik mesleği için özellikle üzerinde durulması gereken bir durumdur. Türk Eğitim Sistemi ve Okul Yönetimi dersi öğretmenlik programlarına bu amaçlarla konmuştur.

Burada istenen, mesleğe yeni başlayan öğretmenlere eğitim sisteminin yapısı ve okuldaki işleyişle ilgili temel bilgi ve beceriyi meslek öncesi hazırlık aşamasında vermektir. Böylece mesleğe yeni başlayan genç öğretmenler sistemin kendilerinden beklentilerini başarı ile yerine getirebileceklerdir. Alanın uzmanları ve özellikle okul sistemi içinde görev yapan öğretmen/yöneticilerden de yararlanılarak hazırlanan bu kitap, eğitimin tarihsel ve düşünsel temellerinin yanında, eğitim sistemi ve okul yönetimiyle ilgili olduğunu düşündüğümüz yöneticilerin psikolojik özellikleri, eğitimde aktüel konular gibi pek çok konuyu içermektedir. Böylece öğretmen adaylarının kafasında oluşabilecek pek çok sorunun cevabı verilmeye çalışılmıştır.

This monograph will make no attempt to analyze the personality of the ideal teacher. It is assumed that the teacher of history has an adequate preparation to teach his subject, that he is in good health, and that his usefulness is unimpaired by discontent with his work or cynicism about the world. It is presupposed that he understands the wisdom of correlating in his instruction the geography, social progress, and economic development of the people which his class are studying. He is aware that the pupil should experience something more than a kaleidoscopic view of isolated facts. He recognizes the folly of requiring four years of high school English for the purpose of cultivating clear, fluent, and accurate expression, only to relax the effort when the student comes into the history class. He knows that the precision, logic, and habit of definite thinking exacted by the pursuit of the scientific subjects should not be laid aside when the student attempts to trace the rise of nations. Let us go so far as to assume a teacher who is both pedagogical and practical; scholarly without being musty; imbued with a love for his subject and yet familiar with actual human experience.

The book, which started its journey as a research article but later turned into a book, examines the educational problems experienced in the Music Departments of Fine Arts High Schools in Turkey through the views of the music teachers working in this school in a provincial city and discusses the results with a generalizable approach, mainly from the perspective of music teaching. Although Fine Arts High Schools have been extensively studied in the music education literature, studies focused on the problems experienced in these schools are quite limited. The data of the study were obtained from a single study group instead of a sample selected from the population. Some problems are strongly related to the socio-cultural and socio-economic variables surrounding the school. These two justifications should be interpreted as the results are not generalizable. However, it should be emphasized that some of the results obtained in this study regarding common and non-intervening elements for all Fine Arts High Schools in Turkey such as the criteria for appointment of administrators, teacher-student selection method, curriculums, and textbooks may be generalizable. In this context, the study is considered important in terms of drawing attention to the current problems experienced in these schools and providing results that will help to make a comparison between the school where the research was conducted and other Fine Arts High Schools.