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- Title
Karşılaştırmalı Açıdan Türkiye'de ve Amerika'da Tarih Eğitimi: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü ve Western Illinois Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü Üzerine Örnek Bir Çalışma
- Authors
ACUN, Ramazan
- Abstract
Although reliable statistics are not available, history graduates in Turkey are known to have a high unemployment rate compared to other professions. In the United States of America, however the employment rate of history graduates is no different from other professions. Assuming that one of the reasons for this difference in employment rates may be found in the design and implementation of educational programs, a comparative study has been carried out on two history departments one selected from Turkey and the other from the USA. These are the department of History, Hacettepe University, and Department of History, Western Illinois University. At the most basic level, this study is a comparison of the educational programs of these two departments using the systems approach. Within this framework, brief research involving class attendance and interviews with faculty members was conducted at the University of Western Illinois during the summer term in 2018. The study facilitated by the academic cooperation agreement between the two universities. As a result, the following basic finding which needs to be extended by longer-term research, has been obtained: The history courses and their contents in Turkey, seem to be arranged "an ideal historian" in mind so as to ensure that graduates get the most information possible. The determining factor, in the USA, on the other hand, seems to be widening career opportunities for graduates. The number of students per faculty member (8) supports this goal.
- Subjects
TURKEY; TURKISH history; UNEMPLOYMENT statistics; EDUCATIONAL programs; ILLINOIS state history; HISTORIANS; HACETTEPE University; WESTERN Illinois University (Macomb, Ill.)
- Publication
Turkish History Education Journal (TUHED), 2020, Vol 9, Issue 1, p232
- ISSN
2147-4516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17497/tuhed.669456