A Look at Teacher Training Schools in Turkish Education: Gönen Teacher Training School Cover Image

Türk eğitiminde ilköğretmen okullarina bir bakiş: Gönen ilköğretmen okulu
A Look at Teacher Training Schools in Turkish Education: Gönen Teacher Training School

Author(s): Esin Yüzbaşi
Subject(s): Education, History of Education, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Kastamonu Üniversitesi
Keywords: Teacher Training Schools; Gönen Teacher Training School; Education; Education in Isparta; Gönen; Isparta;

Summary/Abstract: Gönen Teacher Training School which trained about 2.381 teachers between 1954 and 1974 as a teacher school, has played an important role in training teachers in the country. The school is the best school in the region and has experienced a period in which it was a privilege to go to Gönen Teacher Training School. The students of Gönen Teacher Training School, which provides free boarding education, learned the craft by taking applied lessons in the school's workshops in addition to the teaching lessons they took. Also, it was wanted that each student of this school play an instrument. The teacher candidates, who received 6 years of education in Gönen school, practiced both in laboratory, workshop and agriculture studies, and produced the teaching tools themselves in the workshops. These produced teaching tools were sent to internship schools and some primary schools to be used. In this study, in addition to the information about the number of students, teachers and graduates of Gönen Teacher Training School between 1954-1974, the course information of the students, their activities and the daily lives of the students in this school were also considered.

  • Issue Year: 4/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 111-124
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Turkish