TY  - JOUR
TI  - A Disadvantaged Student Group: Educational Experiences of Working Children
AB  - Purpose: The present study aims to analyze the availability of educational services for working students.The study attempts todetermine the impact of educational activities conducted in schools attended by working students on education quality, theproblems and expectations of working students based on the views of the stakeholders. Design/Methodology/Approach: The participants include school administrators, teachers and parents of working students inthe qualitative study. Conducting the research at the secondary school level is seen as a limitation. The participants of the studyconsist of secondary school administrators and children who study in these schools. Semi-structured interview forms areemployed as the data collection instrument, and the collected data are analyzed with the content analysis method. Findings: The study findings demonstrated that educational activities had certain negative effects such as disinterest inschooling, academic failure, fatigue, absenteeism, and undesired behavior, as well as positive effects such as acquisition of avocation, maturity, and protection. The stakeholders suggested issues such as negative role models, absenteeism, fatigue, earlyprofessional responsibilities, conflict, academic failure, and recommendations such as parent training, financial support, andvocational training. It was determined that these students expected financial support, parent training and planned workschedules. Highlights: It could be suggested that there are various interactive dimensions of the employment of educational activities forworking children, and future policies that are specific to the problem and the region could be more effective when comparedto the present centralist approaches.
AU  - DEMİRTAŞ, Hasan
AU  - CULHA, ALİ
DO  - 10.24106/kefdergi.886412
PY  - 2021
JO  - Kastamonu Eğitim Dergisi
VL  - 29
IS  - 4
SN  - 1300-8811
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/487271
ER  -