Eðitim-Sen Report on 2011-2012 Acedemic Year
Eðitim-Sen Report on 2011-2012 Acedemic Year
Education and Science Workers Union (Eðitim Sen) has released its half-year report of the academic year 2011-2012. The Union’s report points out that the current educational system is apparently worse than those of earlier periods and remarks that earlier implementations for commercialization and religionization of the education became intensified more than all earlier periods.
Pointing out to the legal and effective pressures of the AKP government against the demands voiced in the recent period for mother-tongue education, the report also criticized the government regarding the process in earthquake-shattered Van area where schools were opened yet before the provision of most basic needs of the earthquake victims in the area.
The Eðitim-Sen report underlined that the taught curriculum of the Turkish education system largely consisted of racist, retrogressive and sex discrimination and pointed out to practical applications of the Ministry of National Education to step by step include religious elements in the education process.
According to the report, the current physical structure of schools and the lack of materials, library and infrastructure at many schools lead to a poor education while a great number of children still can’t benefit from the right to education. Remarking that students in big cities or in areas populated by poor and laborer families have to attend classes in classrooms each of which is filled with up to 50 students.
The report of Eðitim-Sen stated that compulsory religion lessons are still imposed on all children from different beliefs and religions, while the children of unbelieving families are subject to discriminatory implementations.
The report pointed to education in mother-tongue as the indispensable condition for children to ensure a healthy mental development, learning ability and developing an identity. The rejection of mother-tongue education is a main matter that gives way to other problems, noted the report and indicated the right to education in mother tongue as a basic human right assured by many international arrangements including UN conventions. The report called attention that millions of children were having difficulty in mental development and developing their identity due to the denial of their right to be educated in their mother-tongue.
Noting that there are 4093 private teaching institutions in 81 provinces, the report pointed out that the National Education Ministry aimed to turn these institutions into private schools in the near future.
Pointing out to the legal and effective pressures of the AKP government against the demands voiced in the recent period for mother-tongue education, the report also criticized the government regarding the process in earthquake-shattered Van area where schools were opened yet before the provision of most basic needs of the earthquake victims in the area.
The Eðitim-Sen report underlined that the taught curriculum of the Turkish education system largely consisted of racist, retrogressive and sex discrimination and pointed out to practical applications of the Ministry of National Education to step by step include religious elements in the education process.
According to the report, the current physical structure of schools and the lack of materials, library and infrastructure at many schools lead to a poor education while a great number of children still can’t benefit from the right to education. Remarking that students in big cities or in areas populated by poor and laborer families have to attend classes in classrooms each of which is filled with up to 50 students.
The report of Eðitim-Sen stated that compulsory religion lessons are still imposed on all children from different beliefs and religions, while the children of unbelieving families are subject to discriminatory implementations.
The report pointed to education in mother-tongue as the indispensable condition for children to ensure a healthy mental development, learning ability and developing an identity. The rejection of mother-tongue education is a main matter that gives way to other problems, noted the report and indicated the right to education in mother tongue as a basic human right assured by many international arrangements including UN conventions. The report called attention that millions of children were having difficulty in mental development and developing their identity due to the denial of their right to be educated in their mother-tongue.
Noting that there are 4093 private teaching institutions in 81 provinces, the report pointed out that the National Education Ministry aimed to turn these institutions into private schools in the near future.
