Özet:

In Turkey, which hosts the world’s largest number of Syrian refugees, short-term plans have been made with the assumption that they will first return. But with the continuation of the war, the disappearance of living spaces, and the increase of people coming from day to day, longer-term plans have begun to be made. In this context, the children’s educational problems have been addressed. As an urgent answer to this issue, the Temporary Education Centers (GEM) established in their own languages and programmes under the leadership of NGOs has been recognized as not sufficient. The good management of the transition process from GEMs to public schools in Turkey, with about a million Syrians in the school age; the good preparation of the guardians, administrators and teachers for the new situation, becomes important in terms of academic and social harmony of students. In this study, which aims to demonstrate the academic and social harmony of Syrian students studying in the secondary school, 13 Syrian students, 7 teachers and 3 school managers were evaluated and presented recommendations. According to the findings, the main factor that strengthens the academic conformity of high school students is the lack of Turkish reading and writing skills of students. In terms of social harmony, it is observed that 9th grade students experience various problems such as exclusion from group games and events. When the opinions of Syrian students on their acceptance are assessed by their friends, it is clear that when students are just starting to school, they have trouble being accepted by their friends in the 9th class. These problems include a variety of negative behaviors, such as excretion from activities and from the game, brutal behavior. New school students are more in need of academic and social support, and students who receive this support are better adapted to the next classes.