Proje Okullarının Nitelikli Okul Özellikleri Üzerine Yönetici Görüşleri (original) (raw)

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate whether the PSs Schools (PSs) carry the qualifications of a qualified school, based on the views of school administrators and the documents on the websites of these schools. Within the scope of this research, qualified school is defined as a school concentrates on students’ nature, pays attention to the activity of students and authentic, free and democratic. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews, conducted individually via face-to-face meetings with the administrators of six different PSs Schools in Istanbul. After the administrator interviews were conducted, the web sites of these schools were examined in relation to the history, mission and visions of schools, school councils, school board decisions, school projects and activities. Descriptive analysis was used in the analysis of research data. According to the results obtained from the research, the most important area of freedom in PSs is that the administrators ca...