Özet:

The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of special education teachers about the deficiencies of the former undergraduate programs they graduated from, and also to determine what the 2016-2017 Special Education Teaching Undergraduate Program meets or not through these opinions. The data analysis of the study, which was carried out with the qualitative research method, was carried out with content analysis. In order to ensure validity and reliability, participant confirmation was used and participant views were directly included in the study. The audience in the research consists of 53 teachers who graduated from different universities and working in different regions of Turkey. 67% of the teachers participating in the research work in public institutions and 33% in private institutions. 45% of the participants were graduates of teachers for the mentally handicapped, 51% of teachers for the hearing impaired, and 4% of teachers for the visually impaired. In the study in which the semi-structured interview form was used, the data were grouped under certain themes and interpreted. According to the research findings, the application courses for the quality of the old undergraduate programs are inefficient; inadequacy of the curriculum and academic staff and It was concluded that the program could not meet the professional skills. As a result of the examined 2016-2017 Special Education Undergraduate Program and the teachers' opinions, it was concluded that the combined program would meet the need in theory.

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