Abstract:

As of 1964, education problem of children of first Turkish generation starting to work in Belgium as temporary employee has showed up after Turkish people has become permanent employees. This problem has continues to be a serious problem even today affecting fourth generation. Turkish and Turkish culture course (TTCC) is given under the office of Education Counselor within the body of Belgium Embassy of Turkey. This Lecture has been given within the frame of OLC (Openess to Languages and Cultures) agreement. OLC is language and culture agreement signed mutually between Turkish and Brussels- Valonya Federation. The aim of this study is to find out views of teachers, teaching lesson of Turkish and Turkish culture course in Belgium to determine problems of TTCC and solution offers of those problems. In this study, phenomenological model of qualitative research is used. Views of teacher are taken through semi-structured interviews forming open-ended questions. Data of 10 participants obtained froms interviews are resolved content analysis and assigned to categories. The problems related to TTCC are; problem arising from course hours, schedule and course materials, problems in relation with classroom environment, problems arising from aspect of parents to TTCC and TTCC teachers, problems of because of making education in combined classes, problems of school, problems stemming from that TTCC has not formal assessment, problems arising from aspects of students to TTCC, problems because of existence of religious topics in culture lectures and problems arising from work load of teachers. The solutions offered by teachers are as follows: suggestions for problems arising from legal regulations, suggestions for problems stemming from TTCC program and materials, proposals for problems arising out of TTCC teachers, suggestions for problems of classroom environment, suggestions of problems for combined classes, suggestions for associations and suggestions for integration of TTCC to whole society.

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