Being a Teacher in an Alternative School: The Case Of ASIP
Project no. 22989 · Status: Kapanmış · 2021
Summary
With this study, it is aimed to reveal the roles of teachers in schools that make alternative education practices in Turkey and the experiences of teachers in the learning culture in these schools. For this purpose, schools affiliated with Another School is Possible Association (ASIP), which was established in 2010 with the aim of developing an alternative school model and opening schools where this model is applied, were determined as the case to be examined. Semi-structured focus group interviews with teachers, administrators and parents in four ASIP schools; in order to monitor their school life, data were collected through observations and examination of related documents. As a result of the content analysis, the main themes of duties and responsibilities, school culture, professional development and indispensable were reached. From this point of view, the roles, duties and responsibilities of teachers in schools that make alternative education practices change especially in a learner-centered direction in the planning, design and teaching process, the school climate is more sincere and democratically transformed, professional development is important and compulsory, and all change is reflected in contemporary education understandings. It is hoped that these results will be reflected in the pre-service and in-service training of teachers. Keywords: Alternative education, alternative schools, teacher