Covid-19 Pandemi̇ Sorununun Ön Li̇sans Eği̇ti̇mi̇ne Yansimalari
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This study aims at analyzing reflections of the COVID-19 pandemic on associate education. Conducted in the document analysis model, this study revealed the following results. The COVID-19 pandemic, which appeared in 2019, led to a serious trauma at all the educational levels. Triggering learning voids in education, the trauma was felt more deeply in the Vocational Schools of the associate education due to two main reasons. The first reason was the short educational period of these schools which consisted two years while the second reason was their practice-oriented educational policy. Due to the short educational period, it is uncertain when and how the face-to-face education in the Vocational Schools, which was interrupted partly or completely during the pandemic process, will be compensated for. The negative impacts of the learning voids and particularly deficiencies deriving from practical skills, which appeared during the pandemic process, on the labor market are inevitable. Therefore, it is imperative that along with actions to be taken, short-, medium- and long-term plans for the Vocational Schools students of the pandemic period have to be made urgently. In the short-term, plan requires enforcing a practice-oriented make-up term in the summer semester of 2021. The medium-term plan is the requirement of an induction, orientation training for the Vocational Schools graduates of the pandemic period. The long-term plan, however, is the suggestion of the Hybrid Vocational School Model which means blending face-to-face education with virtual and digital technology-based education. As a matter of fact, it is observed that steps have been taken towards this during the 2021-2022 education period. As a prerequisite of the Information Age, the hybrid model is essential to prepare the Vocational Schools for crisis like pandemics in the future.
Authors: Akpınar, Esra, Akpınar, Burhan
Institutions: Harran University, Fırat University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4291237790