Writing for academic purposes is a tricky issue, especially for researchers who are eager to be recognized by larger academic discourse communites through their publications. Indeed, writing for prestigious databases and especially in English has been the basic concern of researchers with EFL background. However, in the last thirty years, the leading figures in ESP and EAP realms have developed pedagogical writing models and emphasized the critical role of genre analysis as road map in academic writing for researchers, with the very term of John Swales, who are looking for creating research space in local and international academic platforms. Thus, driven from these inspiring models in the literature, which are basicly prolific outcomes of genre based writing pedagogy, I, as a researcher, eager to cover all these pragmatic tools in a way that reseachers and, especially, novice researchers would easily catch the essence of writing for academic discourses in terms of positioning themselves in these discourses by synthesizing relevant parts of my master thesis and dissertation. Thus, as a motivational, inspring and reader friendly guide, Genre Analysis Based Pedagogy: Writing for Academic Discourses firstly explains genre as a term within paradigms and the critical position of genre analysis based writing pedagogy and genre analysis as methodology. Followingly, the models specifically put by ESP and EAP experts and practitioners are provided briefly and clearly for researchers in such a way that will guide them in rhetorically and lexico-grammatically structuring of their academic texts, or academic genres, section by section and holistically in English. Thus, through this self-help book, researchers can organize their academic genres with a professional academic tone in English, which will ease, as Hyland pointed out, contextualizing their genres into wider academic contexts.

That any rational and accountable being should ever have been found to oppose the progress of truth, is truly humiliating; yet every page of history, which records the developement of new principles, exhibits also the outbreakings of prejudice and selfishness. The deductions of Galileo, of Newton, of Harvey, and innumerable others, have been opposed and denounced, each in its turn; while their promoters have been vilified as empyrics or innovators. Nor has this been done by those only whose self love or worldly interests prompted them to exclude the truth, but by good and honourable men, whose prejudices were strong, and whose zeal was not guided by discretion. Such persons have frequently been found to shut their eyes against the plainest truths, to wrestle with their own convictions, and positively refuse even to listen to evidence. The same thing may happen with regard to education;—and this is no pleasing prospect to the lover of peace, who sets himself forward as a reformer in this noble work.—Change is inevitable. Teaching is an art; and it must, like all the other arts, depend for its improvement upon the investigations of science. Now, every one knows, that although the cultivation of chemistry, and other branches of natural science, has, of late years, given an extraordinary stimulus to the arts, yet the science of education, from which the art of teaching can alone derive its power, is one, beyond the threshold of which modern philosophy has scarcely entered. Changes, therefore, both in the theory and practice of teaching, may be anticipated;—and that these changes will be inconvenient and annoying to many, there can be no doubt. That individuals, in these circumstances, should be inclined to deprecate and oppose these innovations and improvements, is nothing more than might be expected; but that the improvements themselves should on that account be either postponed or abandoned, would be highly injurious. An enlightened system of education is peculiarly the property of the public, on which both personal, family, and national happiness in a great measure depends. These interests therefore must not be sacrificed to the wishes or the convenience of private individuals. The prosperity and happiness of mankind are at stake; and the welfare of succeeding generations will, in no small degree, be influenced by the establishment of sound principles in education at the present time. Nothing, therefore, should be allowed to mystify or cripple that science, upon which the spread and the permanence of all useful knowledge mainly rest.

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.

Action research, colloquially referred to as ‘teacher research’ in academic discourse, represents a research paradigm that has been prominently adopted in the field of education and is gradually gaining traction in Turkish academic research. The present research systematically examines postgraduate action research conducted in the Turkish educational field in recent years, including considerations of subject matter, technical characteristics, and resulting outcomes. The last part of this scholarly work outlines a participatory action research framework in line with the established characteristics elucidated in the scholarly literature. The overall aim of this literary contribution is to provide a valuable resource for educators engaged in the intricacies of action research, postgraduate students, experts within the educational sciences, and diligent researchers, thereby fostering an enriched academic discourse.