A Study on Professional Acquisitions and Improvements of Foreign Instructors Who are Teaching in Turkey

Deniz, Tasan (2017) A Study on Professional Acquisitions and Improvements of Foreign Instructors Who are Teaching in Turkey. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies, 3 (4). pp. 1-10. ISSN 24091294

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Abstract

Importance of education has been increasing day by day in globalizing world. Borders around the education are being broken and internationalization is growing in education field. Beside this, there are many academic papers and studies in this field in international journals. Those papers also have shown that the international experiences provide many acquisitions to the instructors. This study aims to determine the acquisitions of the foreign instructors who are teaching in Turkey. For this purpose, we have interviewed with 17 foreign instructors in Turkey. Interviews have been performed face to face. The findings of the study show that the instructors’ acquisitions are: self-confidence, recognition of new systems, researcher instructors, and pleasure of international experiences. The remaining details have been discussed in the findings, conclusions, and recommendations section.

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