Abstract:

It could be asserted that immigration concept is as old as human history since human has continuously moved to other places from past to present. Although people have had to immigrate because of many economical, political and social problems, global developments of today have an accelerator effect on immigration act. The number of people having to leave their country and move to another due to the wars around the world is increasing day by day. While immigrants face many problems in the county they move to, the country hosting them could have some problems related to this movement as well. Through this study, the educational problems of Syrian refugees mandatorily moved to Turkey because of the war were analyzed. In line with this, the aim of the study was revealing the situations of teachers and students and their perceptions towards the atmosphere in a school where Turkish children were educated in the morning while Syrian refugee students were educated in the afternoon. Within the study, the features of the school, the scope of curriculum applied to Syrian refugees, the problems within education process were examined in terms of teacher and student views. In the study designed by qualitative approach, the data was collected via interviews. 12 refugee students and 4 Syrian teachers in a school Syrian refugees are educated separately in Turkey constituted the participants of the study.

According to the findings obtained by the interviews conducted face to face with students and teachers; the findings that most of teachers working in the schools refugees educated in Turkey were graduates of a university but teaching was not their original profession, they had economical difficulties, they had problems especially with curriculum and teaching materials at schools, their students forgot some learned items because of several years of break and most of these students had the psychological effects of the war were reached. As a result of the study, suggestions were offered regarding that refugees’ education should be carried out along with the students of hosting country, the curricula should be prepared accordingly and teachers working at these schools need to have the pedagocial formation.

Keywords:

Education of refugee children, educational problems, globalization, human rights and education.