'No- one respects them anyway': secondary school students' perceptions of human rights education in Turkey

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dc.authorwosidBağlı, Melike Türkan/ABB-6935-2020
dc.contributor.authorCayir, Kenan
dc.contributor.authorBagli, Melike Turkan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:45:18Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:45:18Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe incorporation of compulsory courses on human rights into the secondary school curriculum in 1998 has been an important first step in developing respect for human rights and responsibilities among the younger generation in Turkey. Yet, these courses have many shortcomings in terms of materials, pedagogy and teacher attitudes. This paper explores Grades 7 and 8 (ages 13 and 14) students' experiences in Citizenship and Human Rights Education courses on the basis of qualitative data collected through focus group discussions in Ankara and Istanbul in the 2006-2007 academic year. The responses of the students indicate that these courses have had little impact in empowering students or in facilitating them to consider their own or others' human rights as an integral part of their lives. Rather, the students perceive the national and the global arena as characterized by mass human rights violations against which they feel powerless. The paper draws attention to the importance of a revised human rights education for students along with a global focus and appropriate methodology.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey); Human Rights Education at the University of Leedsen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author would like to thank TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) for providing financial support for his studies at the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education at the University of Leeds.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14675986.2011.549641
dc.identifier.endpage14en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-5986
dc.identifier.issn1469-8439
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-79953873854en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2011.549641
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7502
dc.identifier.volume22en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000213362000001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofIntercultural Educationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rights Educationen_US
dc.subjectEducation İn Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectTextbooksen_US
dc.subjectNationalismen_US
dc.title'No- one respects them anyway': secondary school students' perceptions of human rights education in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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