Browsing by Author "Ergin, Hakan."

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    An analysis of correctional education programs in Turkish prisons: perceptions of correctional educators and inmates
    (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.) Ergin, Hakan.; Gök, Fatma.
    This study aims to explore the perceptions of correctional educators and inmates about the correctional education programs in a men’s and a women’s prison in Turkey and compare these perceptions of correctional educators and inmates to each other. Two groups, namely, correctional educators and inmates, participated in the study. Ten correctional educators, five from each prison, formed the first group of the participants in the study. Twenty inmates, ten from each prison, formed the second group. The data were collected through interview, a data collection technique of the qualitative method. A semi-structured interview form was developed. Both groups’ interviews included fourteen questions and the data gathered from the interviews were analyzed by the content analysis method. The findings of the study revealed that correctional educators are not as satisfied with taking place in correctional education environment as inmates are. However, it was further revealed that both correctional educators and inmates have similar perspectives about the factors that facilitate or complicate inmates’ success in correctional education programs, the necessity that all inmates should be provided with professional skills during their incarceration, the existence of the in-prison and after-prison positive effects of the correctional education programs on inmates and the existence of the problems in correctional education environments and the ways of solving these problems as well. In the light of the findings, recommendations for correctional educators, authorities and the entire society were made for the sake of improving the correctional facilities in Turkish prisons.
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    Internationalization of higher education via distance learning: A grounded theory study in Turkey
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.) Ergin, Hakan.; Seggie, Fatma Nevra.
    This qualitative study examined how a faculty in Turkey internationalized via distance learning. This was made by multiple data collection and analysis procedures. First, observations were made to explore the operation of the faculty. Second, official documents produced by the faculty, university, national and supranational organizations were analyzed to reveal how hierarchical relations among policymakers influenced the faculty's approach to internationalization. Third, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 administrators of the faculty, 10 faculty members and 10 international distance students to explore their experiences in international distance learning programs. Based on the findings, the operation of the faculty was associated with the theory of the industrialization of teaching (Peters, 1983). Next, it was explored that the faculty administration was under the pressure of the massification of higher education and world university rankings. It was revealed that the participants had undergone academic, economic, social/cultural and psychological transformative influences of international distance learning programs. The main contribution of this study to the literature is that a theoretical model of distance internationalization has been proposed. The model introduces the rationales, philosophical foundations, global pressure, advantages, challenges and transformative influences in the internationalization of higher education via distance learning. It is expected to provide a route map for policymakers and higher education institutions with an agenda of internationalization via distance learning.