Evaluation of the post-graduate theses on teacher education in Turkey

The aim of this study is to examine post-graduate theses in the field of teacher education in Turkey and to develop a variety of suggestions, concerned with teacher education, from the obtained findings and results from these studies. With this aim in mind, the study examined and evaluated the theses on teacher education conducted in Turkey from 2006 to 2012. Meta-synthesis and descriptive analyzing methods were used at this study. Generally, the studies examined were to determine the effectiveness of recent teaching methods and techniques. In order to establish the proposed results, the existing curriculum was studied around two or three dimensions. In the studies, in order to train qualified teachers in the process of teacher education, the practicality of the teacher education practices were highlighted. Examining the teacher training institutions in detail in terms of their infrastructure and faculty were also reported as a need. It is also concluded that, there is a need to increase the efforts to offer an alternative model of teacher education in our country.