Abstract:

The main objective of this research is to determine school administrators' opinions about cooperation among schools in the training process of immigrant students and providing suggestions to the implementers in this regard. The research was designed with the phenomenological design of qualitative research methods. The study group consisted of 28 school administrators who were in charge during the academic year 2017-2018. As a purposeful sampling method, critical case sampling was used in the research. As a critical case, the situation of schools in disadvantaged and high immigrant-receiving regions has been studied. A semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher was used as data collection tool. The findings revealed that the problem areas were related to language problems, economic inadequacies and emotional problems of students, lack of language as a underlying cause of problems in education, economic insufficiency and increasing number of students. The findings also showed that school administrators tried to solve the problems they encountered through language courses opened; they had insufficient information regarding the efforts carried out in other schools; they had communicated at irregular intervals and they needed to exchange information by conducting meetings to develop cooperation.

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