The New System of
Education in Turkey
Without a shadow of a doubt, education plays an essential role in today’s world. Each country competes with one another to give the best education with new approaches to their citizens and so, these countries want their citizens to be not only more qualified but also well-educated people. Also, it will be easy for the countries to develop themselves. For example, European countries implement an approach which is called life-long education to its citizens in order to enable them to keep up with the times. When Turkey is considered, it can be said that the government also provides some opportunities to its citizens to make them sophisticated mankind. However, the education system that is applied in Turkey has been changed in recent times and its name is 4+4+4 education system now. This change leads to some debates about whether it is good for the students or not. Let us now mention both the causes and effects of 4+4+4 education system.
The first cause of 4+4+4 education system is about students’ choosing their branches. When the fourth grade students promote the next stage and become the fifth grade ones, they have an obligation to decide on what they want to be in the future. Furthermore, while they are making these vocational decisions first, they think about their skills and wishes. Then, the students continue their education life with the choices they make. However, how these students who are from the fourth or fifth grade can be expected to make rational decisions? According to the author, Andrew Finkel, the issue of students’ choosing their branches is not wanted to be done at an appropriate age (Finkel, 2012).
The second cause is having an individual achievement and providing equal opportunities to the students. In other words, the students’ own success determines the way of their education. To illustrate, if there are students whose grades are high, at the end of the year, their grade point averages are calculated by considering the performances of the learners both in spring and fall terms. Besides, this system offers equal opportunities to the students when it is thought that they are creating their own future by getting higher or lower marks from their assignments or exams which affect the grade point averages.
Without a shadow of a doubt, education plays an essential role in today’s world. Each country competes with one another to give the best education with new approaches to their citizens and so, these countries want their citizens to be not only more qualified but also well-educated people. Also, it will be easy for the countries to develop themselves. For example, European countries implement an approach which is called life-long education to its citizens in order to enable them to keep up with the times. When Turkey is considered, it can be said that the government also provides some opportunities to its citizens to make them sophisticated mankind. However, the education system that is applied in Turkey has been changed in recent times and its name is 4+4+4 education system now. This change leads to some debates about whether it is good for the students or not. Let us now mention both the causes and effects of 4+4+4 education system.
The first cause of 4+4+4 education system is about students’ choosing their branches. When the fourth grade students promote the next stage and become the fifth grade ones, they have an obligation to decide on what they want to be in the future. Furthermore, while they are making these vocational decisions first, they think about their skills and wishes. Then, the students continue their education life with the choices they make. However, how these students who are from the fourth or fifth grade can be expected to make rational decisions? According to the author, Andrew Finkel, the issue of students’ choosing their branches is not wanted to be done at an appropriate age (Finkel, 2012).
The second cause is having an individual achievement and providing equal opportunities to the students. In other words, the students’ own success determines the way of their education. To illustrate, if there are students whose grades are high, at the end of the year, their grade point averages are calculated by considering the performances of the learners both in spring and fall terms. Besides, this system offers equal opportunities to the students when it is thought that they are creating their own future by getting higher or lower marks from their assignments or exams which affect the grade point averages.
Notwithstanding
having some causes, 4+4+4 education system has also many effects. The initial effect of this new education
system is having lots of students from different age groups in one classroom. To be more obvious, it can be said that when
the students start the first grade, there will be several children who are both
ready for the school normally and who are 66 month old. Thus, the intelligence levels of them are not
the same and maybe the 66 month old ones feel themselves insufficient in the
view of having difficulties in comprehending the lesson. Also, this situation can affect the young
students’ psychologies negatively.
In addition, raise of child labor is the last impact. First of all, what is child labor? It is the process of a child’s working outside instead of taking education at school. In this process, a child who is at a very young age is worked in unsuitable conditions and this harms the growing of that child. In spite of compulsory education’s extending to twelve years, children are not compelled to go on their education life, unfortunately. To illustrate, a seven year old boy is working on streets or roads to sell handkerchief or something else. Also, this situation is really dangerous for the child because he is under the risk of hitting of a car.
Taking everything into account, even though the implementation of new education system in Turkey called 4+4+4 has several causes in terms of students’ choosing their branches and being able to have an individual achievement and providing the same opportunities to the students, it also has lots of impacts namely having numerous students from different age levels in one classroom and raise of child labor. In my opinion, 4+4+4 education system needs some time to be on the right track. When this happens, the new system will be more beneficial for children.
REFERENCES
Finkel, A. (March 23, 2012). Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know. What’s 4+4+4?.Retrieved from http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/turkeys-education-reform-bill-is-about-playing-politics-with-pedagogy/
In addition, raise of child labor is the last impact. First of all, what is child labor? It is the process of a child’s working outside instead of taking education at school. In this process, a child who is at a very young age is worked in unsuitable conditions and this harms the growing of that child. In spite of compulsory education’s extending to twelve years, children are not compelled to go on their education life, unfortunately. To illustrate, a seven year old boy is working on streets or roads to sell handkerchief or something else. Also, this situation is really dangerous for the child because he is under the risk of hitting of a car.
Taking everything into account, even though the implementation of new education system in Turkey called 4+4+4 has several causes in terms of students’ choosing their branches and being able to have an individual achievement and providing the same opportunities to the students, it also has lots of impacts namely having numerous students from different age levels in one classroom and raise of child labor. In my opinion, 4+4+4 education system needs some time to be on the right track. When this happens, the new system will be more beneficial for children.
REFERENCES
Finkel, A. (March 23, 2012). Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know. What’s 4+4+4?.Retrieved from http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/turkeys-education-reform-bill-is-about-playing-politics-with-pedagogy/
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