Missions of education faculties in Turkey: A case study (A sample of education faculty of Pamukkale University in Turkey)

Abstract

The purpose of that qualitative study is to put forward its missions of PAU Education Faculty for now and in the future by taking the inner and outer participants' perception into consideration. The model search is the case study. As in many qualitative studies the case study will be relatively on a small-scale The data gained were collected randomly and, through the case study, chosen by group modeling method. The perceptions of inner the and outer participants of The Education Faculty of PAU were obtained by Open Ended Inquiry. The study includes 223 participants chosen among outer and participants'. The inquiry was studied on the volunteers, all of whom had already been evaluated for the modeling beforehand. The data, which had been obtained about The Education Faculty of PAU through inner and outer participants, were matched with thematic content analyzing Process. As a result of the study, according to inner and outer participants' perceptions, the first leading current three missions to perform are successively as following: (1) Educating teachers, (2) maintenance of the education process, (3) Holding certain social, cultural and sportive facilities. Besides, the first leading three responsibilities to realize in the future are also listed are successively as following: (1) Educating qualified and contemporary teachers, (2) Maintaining education qualified and not repetitive, (3) Enlarging social, cultural and sportive facilities within the faculty campus. © 2007 Asian Network for Scientific Information.