The primary purposes of the study was to examine (a) Turkish elementary teachers' beliefs towards teaching writing and their instructional practices, (b) how these beliefs and practices reflect or ignore aspects of the process approach to writing, and (c) what factors affects te…
This dissertation presents a comparative study of Turkish and Egyptian education between 1910 and 1952, focusing on the dissemination of state-supported conceptions of nationalism, regime loyalty, civic virtue, and the social order appropriate to modernizing societies. I do this…
Scope and method of study . The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) of Turkish university students and to find out whether certain variables such as studying a foreign language other than English, gender, self-reported English…
This study analyzes the context and content of Turkish migration to the United States since the 1950s. The research parameters include the effects of globalization and the elements located at the intersection of various social conflicts originating from the dynamics of the world…
At the opening of the twentieth century Turkey began to break its own yoke of internal Government tyranny and disorganization. In 1924 this work of political revolution following the spirit of the century culminated in a social and religious revolution with the breaking of ancie…
Between 1979 and 1999, total Turkish exports rose from US757 million to US35 billion (Foreign Trade Statistics 1996 ). This "export boom" (Barlow and Senses 1995) has been recognized as an economic "success story" (Pomfret 1990). The Turkish clothing industry played a key role i…
Yusuf and Zulaykha mes nevis are the most crucial forms of literary texts born from sacred sources. Their romance has been the most mentioned, expanded, and conflated narrative in Islamic literature. The origin of the story is found in the sacred texts, the Genesis and the Qur'a…
In 1989, more than 300,000 Turks fled the assimilation campaign launched by the communist government in Bulgaria and immigrated to Turkey. The arrival of these immigrants was officially hailed as the homecoming of "ethnic kin" (soydas), who, having ensured the survival of Turkis…
This study aims to contribute monetary economics by studying monetary transmission channels in Turkey, an economy experiencing rapid structural change, rendering structural models very fragile. A case is made for using VAR techniques to measure monetary policy and reaction to it…
This study aims to explore implementations of privatization in Turkey in the context of neo-liberal restructuring of the world economy. To provide inside viewpoints, 37 interviews were conducted with respondents who were working for energy- (electricity) related public organizat…
This descriptive and exploratory study examined the Turkish government's policy regarding access to study abroad, and Turkish student views regarding: (a) access patterns to universities and colleges in the U.S., (b) motivations for study abroad in general and U.S. schools, and …
Since the 1990's, Turkish public sector organizations, like their counterparts around the world, have been in search of better ways to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of services. In pursuit of improved management, a number of Turkish public hospitals have s…
In this dissertation we present a theoretical and empirical analysis of price and non-price competition of firms in the Turkish Automobile Industry. In the past, this industry has been highly protected from foreign competition and shielded from competitive developments of the wo…
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that may be linked to novice early childhood education (ECE) teachers' job satisfaction in 15 randomly selected provinces, 44 counties and 80 early childhood education settings in Turkey. To gain a more in depth understanding …
The main purposes of the research were to identify computer and Internet use by biology, chemistry and physics teachers in Turkish secondary schools and identify factors associated with computer and Internet technology. To this end, survey documents were sent by the Provincial D…
This study achieved a group of objectives such as measuring the impact of the EU's decisions on trust-based, nationalism-based, and religion-based Euro-skepticism, measuring the impact of the EU's decisions on overall Euro-skepticism, and searching and investigating the reasons …
This study evaluated the efficacy of the First Step to Success Early Intervention program on alleviating social-emotional and behavioral problems in Turkish children identified with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and the collateral effects of this intervention …
This research investigates the relationship between globalization and national identity crises by using the Turkish case. The underlying assumption of this research is that globalization is manifested in the intercultural penetration processes which have substantial effects on t…
This study investigates the supranational policy engagement of Turkish migrant associations in France and Germany in EU immigration policy process from a comparative perspective. It seeks the answer to the following question: What explains similarities and differences in terms o…