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Publication Metadata only Transition to family practice in Turkey(Wiley, 2008) Yaman, Hakan; Department of Business Administration; Güneş, Evrim Didem; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51391Introduction: Turkey's primary health care (PHC) system was established in the beginning of the 1960s and provides preventive and curative basic medical services to the population. This article describes the experience of the Turkish health system, as it tries to adapt to the European health system. It describes the current organization of primary health care and the family medicine model that is in the process of implementation and discusses implications of the transition for family physicians and the challenges faced in meeting the needs for health care staff. In Turkey a trend toward urbanization is evident and more staff positions in rural PHC centers are vacant. Shortages of physicians and an ineffective distribution of doctors are seen as a major problem. Family medicine gained popularity at the beginning of the 1990s, as a specialty with a 3-year postgraduate training program. Medical practitioners who are graduates of a 6-year medical training program and are already working in the PHC system are offered retraining courses. Better working conditions and higher salaries may be important incentives for medical practitioners to sign a contract with the social security institution of Turkey. Discussion: The lack of well-trained primary care staff is an ongoing challenge. Attempts to retrain medical practitioners to act as family physicians show promising results. Shortness of physician and health professionals and lack of time and resources in primary health care are problems to overcome during this process.Publication Metadata only Religiosity, the headscarf, and education in Turkey: an analysis of 1988 data and current implications(Taylor & Francis, 2008) Aytaç, Işık A.; Department of Sociology; Rankin, Bruce; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/APrevious research highlights the continuing relevance of family culture in explaining educational inequalities in Turkey, especially patriarchal beliefs and practices that discourage investment in the education of girls. We extend that research by introducing two much-debated, but empirically untested, aspects of family culture - parental religiosity and headscarf preferences. An analysis of a nationally representative sample of 15-19 year olds in 1988 shows that while religiosity had no significant effect on educational attainment, children who lived in families whose fathers expected them to wear a headscarf in public had lower educational attainment, especially girls. The large negative headscarf effect suggests that the government ban on headscarves in schools may be an obstacle to eliminating gender inequality in education. The results are discussed in light of recent trends in Turkish society.Publication Metadata only Examining graduate teaching assistants' conceptions of and readiness for effective teaching in a non-profit Turkish university(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2019) Department of Mechanical Engineering; N/A; N/A; Sözer, Murat; Zeybekoğlu, Zuhal; Alaylı, Ayça; Faculty Member; Other; Master Student; Department of Mechanical Engineering; College of Engineering; N/A; Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; Koç University Office of Learning and Teaching (KOLT); 110357; N/A; N/AThis study aimed to explore graduate teaching assistants' (GTas) perceptions of and readiness for effective teaching in higher education before and after attending an effective teaching training programme that was followed by a short term teaching experience. the study sample consisted of 62 GTas who participated in an effective teaching training programme in a non-profit Turkish university. First, we administered a survey just before and after the training programme, and six months later when study participants conducted different teaching duties in their discipline specific departments. the results showed that after training and experience, GTas put more emphasis on the role of instructors as content experts and their conceptions of effective teaching reflected more caring attitudes toward student learning. We also found that for GTas who actively involved in training and teaching in a real classroom, training and experience have a combined positive effect on their readiness for effective teaching.Publication Metadata only Parental networks, ethnicity, and social and cultural capital: the societal dynamics of educational resilience in Turkey(Taylor & Francis, 2017) Department of Sociology; Çelik, Çetin; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 105104Resilience research has increasingly gained ground in the field of education research, due to its potential for ameliorating inequalities. This article deals with the emergence of educational resilience, with particular attention to parental network structure, by employing a Bourdieusian social and cultural capital approach. While much of the literature discusses resilience normatively as a personal trait, this article frames it as an outcome of larger societal processes. Drawing on a comparative study of the experiences of resilient student-mother and dropout-mother pairs living in inner-city areas of Istanbul, the article illustrates that the emergence of resilience is strongly linked to resources such as parental networks and that parental networks significantly differ along the nexus of ethnicity.Publication Metadata only Industrial design students' perceptions towards a career in user experience field in Turkey(Springer, 2022) Suner-Pla-Cerda, Sedef; Tore Yargin, Gulsen; Ural, Haktan; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Günay, Aslı; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 150162The rapid growth of the user experience (UX) field has brought efforts to meet the increasing demand for specialists by welcoming professionals from diverse disciplines, including industrial design (ID). UX field offers ID graduates extended professional possibilities, potentially appeasing the challenging conditions of the ID job market in Turkey. Although there are some educational efforts on getting prepared for a career in UX, how ID students perceive such a career path has not been investigated. For this purpose, this paper presents a survey study conducted with senior ID students to understand their perspectives regarding the likelihood of a career in UX. The findings outline the extent and reasons of their interest in UX, benefits of their educational background, and perceived readiness and individual efforts towards building a UX career. We discuss the potentials of ID background for UX, and present implications for design education and practice to better prepare students for a career in UX.Publication Metadata only School to work or school to home? An analysis of women's vocational education in Turkey as a path to employment(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Alnıaçık, Ayşe; Yükseker, Deniz; Department of Sociology; Gökşen, Fatoş; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 51292This paper focuses on women's vocational education in Turkey as a gendered and gendering process. Cultural norms about women's role in society, a vocational curriculum that echoes these norms, and a labour market with gender inequalities constitute the background against which women formulate their vocational preferences and seek pathways into the labour market. We use the literatures on gender and vocational education, school-to-work transitions, and gender bargains to analyse data from qualitative fieldwork with students and graduates of girls? vocational high schools. First, we scrutinize how students choose vocational tracks. Our findings point to the presence of a gendered bounded agency by students and graduates, according to which their choices echo traditional gender norms. Secondly, we discuss the transition from school to work, during which they are faced with gender prejudice in the labour market. Finally, we show how that process turns into a ?school-to-home? transition whereby graduates become homemakers.Publication Metadata only Inequality in social capital: social capital, social risk and drop-out in the Turkish education system(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Gökşen, Fatoş; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 40374; 51292This article examines the effects of social capital on the likelihood of dropping out from the compulsory education system (Grades One through Eight) in Turkey. It focuses on the question of whether school-related social capital can provide the means to stay in school in the presence of risk factors such as socioeconomic status, race, or gender that cannot be easily modified. Despite major progress in enrollment rates due to policies enacted in recent years, the overall drop-out rate in compulsory education is close to 15% in Turkey. Data collected from 764 student-mother pairs show that drop-outs are exposed to higher number of social risk factors. We further illustrate that school-related social capital, as measured by quality of in-school teacher-student interactions as well as parental involvement in school, significantly and positively contributes to adolescents' likelihood of staying in school even in the presence of severe social inequalities.Publication Metadata only Self-regulation mediates the link between family context and socioemotional competence in Turkish preschoolers(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Harma, Mehmet; N/A; Department of Psychology; Gündüz, Gizem; Selçuk, Bilge; Master Student; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 52913Research Findings: In this study, we examined self-regulatory skills, namely, effortful control and executive function, in Turkish preschoolers (N=217) and their mediating roles in the associations between parenting and children's socioemotional competence. We also investigated the role of family socioeconomic status and maternal psychological well-being in these concurrent associations. Mother reports were used for maternal depressive symptoms, parenting behaviors, and children's effortful control. Individual assessment was utilized for executive function, and socioemotional competence was assessed via multiple methods (mother report, teacher report, and individual assessments). Structural equation modeling results showed that effortful control mediated the paths from power-assertion to children's socioemotional competence. The pathway extending from depressive symptoms to socioemotional competency was mediated by power-assertiveness and effortful control. Socioeconomic status was not associated with socioemotional competence through either parenting or self-regulatory constructs. Practice or Policy: The results revealed that even moderate levels of depressive feelings experienced by mothers presented a risk factor for early effortful control and socioemotional development in young children through increasing harsh child rearing. These findings suggest that, given its potential role in the development of early fundamental abilities, it is important to take precautions against adverse effects of even low levels of maternal depression.