International Journal of New Trends in Arts, Sports & Science Education

Yazarlar: Gamze YILDIZ, Nejat İRA, T.Hakan YENAL

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Schooling,Educational planning,Demographic transitions,Individuals of 0-14 years,Future of education,Education-oriented suggestions,Turkish educational system

Özet: The world’s population has been unprecedentedly increasing over the last 20 years, which has happened so fast that relevant fields and institutions have been expected to adapt to the resultant changes at the same speed. Among these prominent fields is education because it is potentially both the cause and result of demographic changes. Thus, the interplay between education and demographic changes and transitions should be studied. The present study intended to investigate the educational manifestations of populational changes and transitions in Turkey. For this reason, it analyzed the quantitative changes in the cohort of the individuals aged 0-14 years to make several suggestions concerning such parameters as schooling, curriculum development, teacher training, and resource exploitation. To this end, the authors availed of the statistics, tables, figures, and reports by Turkish Statistical Institute, Turkish Presidency of Strategy and Budget, United Nations, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. The analyses revealed an increase in the population of the individuals of 0-14 years up to 2023 and an abrupt decrease thereafter. In this sense, the authors presented six scenarios of future education from Schooling for Tomorrow as projected by OECD and made several suggestions in view of the data made available by the Turkish Presidency of Strategy and Budget for the Turkish educational system to be able to adapt to the populational changes and educational scenarios.

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