Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine and put forward the opinions of pre-service teachers about the problems in the Turkish education system and their solution suggestions. The phenomenological model was used in the qualitatively designed study. The participants of the study are 148 students attending the education faculty of a university in the central Anatolia region in Turkey during the spring term of 2020-2021 academic year. The data of the study were collected through a data collection instrument prepared by the researchers and the participants were asked to fill out the instrument by replying to the questions. According to the analysis, the problems of Turkish education system and solutions suggested for these problems were classified under six themes: (i) knowledge provided at schools, (ii) student characteristics, (iii) teaching profession, (iv) physical environment, (v) society’s perception and (vi) implemented policies.

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