Summary


FROM WHERE TO WHERE IN EDUCATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

The researchers who conducted this study carried out a similar study in 2016 and revealed the problems that teachers and administrators working in primary schools face with foreign students, the solutions to the problems and the suggestions. In this study, which was conducted to find an answer to the question of whether there has been any change in the education of foreign students in primary schools in the seven-year period, the opinions of the administrators and teachers in schools where the number of foreign students are higher were taken. In the study, which was carried out in the phenomenology design, which is one of the qualitative research designs, data were collected through individual interviews and focus group interviews using a semi-structured interview form. According to the findings, it was determined that problems such as communication, adaptation, absenteeism, and school enrollment continued to increase in the last seven years, however, problems such as violence tendency, ganging, aggression, inappropriate behaviors with a sexual content, and breaking the rules were experienced less frequently. According to the findings, it was determined that problems such as communication, adaptation, absenteeism, and school enrollment continued to increase in the last seven years, but problems such as violence tendency, ganging, aggression, inappropriate behaviors with a sexual content, and breaking the rules were experienced less frequently. When the differences in the suggestions of the administrators and teachers regarding the problems experienced are examined, it is recommended to open adaptation classes the most in order to overcome the language problem according to the results of both studies. In this study, while the majority of teachers and administrators suggested a balanced distribution of foreign students to schools and classes, in the study in 2016, it was suggested that students gather in a school and classroom While collecting in camps or buffer zones, organizing courses for foreign students through in-service trainings for teachers and providing pre-service training to teacher candidates are among the suggestions of the participants in this research, these suggestions were not presented in the research conducted in 2016.



Keywords

Foreign student, educational problems, primary school.



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