Turkish National Educational
System
🚩General Goals
✅To raise citizens depending on Atatürk's revolution and its principles and
Atatürk's nationalism.
✅To raise citizens that are adopting, protecting and developing the national, moral, human, spiritual and cultural values of the Turkish Nation.
✅To raise citizens who love their family, homeland and nation and always try to glorify them.
✅To raise citizens who know their duties and responsibilities towards the Republic of Turkey.
✅To raise citizens who have well-balanced and well-developed personality and character in terms of body, mind, morality, spirit and emotion.
✅To raise constructive, creative and productive people who are free
and having scientific thinking power, a wide world view, respectful to human rights, valuing personality and enterprise and responsible to society.
✅ Developing the interests, aptitudes and abilities of individuals and giving them the necessary knowledge, skills, behaviors and the habit of working together.
✅ Preparing individuals for life, making them happy and provide them have a profession that contribute to the happiness of the society
✅ To increase the welfare and happiness of Turkish citizens and Turkish society. With national unity and integrity, support and accelerate cultural development of Turkish Nation and make these citizens a constructive, creative, distinguished partner of civilization.
🚩Specific Goals
💥:The Turkish education and training system is organized to achieve these general objectives.
💥: The special purpose of the educational institutions is determined by general aims and main principles.
🚩 Main Principles
❗Generality and equality: Educational institutions are open to everyone regardless of language, race, gender, disability and religion
❗Individual and community needs: The national education service is based on the needs and abilities of Turkish citizens and the needs of the Turkish society.
❗Orientation: During their education, individuals attend various programs in line with their interests and abilities, and they are directed to schools. In directing and measuring success, guidance services, objective assessment, and evaluation methods are utilized.
❗ Education right: It is the right of every Turkish citizen to receive primary education. After primary education, citizens benefit from other educational institutions to the extent of their interests, and abilities
❗ Equality of opportunity: Equality of opportunity is provided to everyone, both men and women in education. To ensure that successful students without financial means receive education up to the highest education levels, necessary assistance is provided through free boarding, scholarships, loans. Special measures are taken to raise children in need of special education and protection.
❗ Continuity: It is essential that the general and vocational education of individuals continue throughout their life. In addition to the education of young people, they are helped to adapt to life and business areas in a positive way. It is also an educational duty of duty to take the necessary measures to ensure continuing education of adults.
❗ Atatürk Revolution and Principles and Atatürk Nationalism: In all kinds of educational activities, Atatürk's revolution and its principles and Atatürk's nationalism is taken as the basis. The characteristic of the Turkish language is to teach without spoiling at all levels of education.
❗ Democracy education: For the realization and continuation of a free and democratic social order, citizens must have the consciousness of democracy. Efforts are made to gain and develop the students' awareness of democracy in all kinds of educational activities.
❗ Secularism: Secularism is essential in Turkish national education. Religious culture and moral education is among the compulsory courses taught in primary and high schools.
❗ Scientific principle: Curricula and course materials are developed according to technological and scientific principles and innovations. Increasing efficiency in education and ensuring continuous improvement can be provided with scientific research and evaluations
❗ The principle of planning: Development of national education is planned and implemented in a way to focus on vocational and technical education. This planning takes place in accordance with social and cultural development goals.
❗ Co-education: It is essential to have girls and boys mixed education in schools. However, depending on the type of education, opportunities and obligations, some schools can be reserved for only male or female students.
❗ Education in eveywhere: The aims of national education are tried to be realized not only in public and private educational institutions, but also at home, in the environment, everywhere and at every opportunity.
❗ Education campuses and cooperation between the school and the family: If more than one formal or non-formal education institution is located in the same area, the education campus
can be established and an education campus management can be created to meet their common needs. The revenues generated are used in the common expenses of the campus. Cooperation between the school and the family is established in order to contribute to the realization of the aims of educational institutions.
For this purpose, school-family unions are established in schools.
