NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Showing all 3 results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Grossman, Gary M.; Sands, Margaret K.; Brittingham, Barbara – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Turkey's experience in developing and piloting accreditation criteria and national standards for teacher education is examined. The full implementation of an accreditation process for teacher education programs was not completed within the time of the development project. However, the effort to do so encouraged the formation of a "quality culture"…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, National Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Teacher Educators
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Grossman, Gary M.; Sands, Margaret K. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
The paper examines the effectiveness of recent reforms in teacher education in Turkey, specifically the restructuring of programmes in university faculties of education. It first, briefly, sets the reforms of the 1990s in an historical context, prior to the 1997 Act which increased the length of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, and the 1998…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Grossman, Gary M.; Onkol, Pinar E.; Sands, Margaret – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
Educational development is one way through which Turkey enhances progress towards its social goals and prepares itself for European Union membership. A major effort to upgrade the Turkish educational system was made through a multi-phased comprehensive reform of the sector introduced during the 1990s. One part of this reform, perhaps most crucial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Union Members, Unions