Ortaokul Öğretmenlerinin Göçmen ve Sığınmacı Öğrencilerle Yaşadıkları İletişim Sorunları: Ankara Keçiören Örneği
Authors: Coşkun Zeynep 
Published: September 2023

In general, migration is expressed as the mobility of people through all or a certain part of human communities and groups because of religious, economic, political, and other reasons. People who leave the country they live in and come to another country or region for temporary or permanent residence are called migrants, and people who leave the country in which they live in line with the claim of being a refugee but whose refugee status has not been finalized yet are called asylum seekers. The present study aims to determine the problems experienced by the children of immigrant and asylum-seeking families, who migrated from their hometowns to Turkey for different reasons, with teachers in the school environment. In Turkey, migrant education was initially aimed at directing the education process by working together with Syrian and local teachers; then, the Temporary Education Camps were reduced, and the integration of immigrant students into the Turkish education system was provided through official education institutions. The present study was conducted to determine the problems that secondary school teachers face with immigrant and refugee students. Determining the problems experienced by immigrant and asylum-seeking children is very important for both children and the quality of education provided to these children. The case study design, among the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. In this way, it was aimed to obtain detailed information about the communication problems of secondary school teachers with immigrant and asylum students. Keçiören District, where the number of immigrant and asylum-seeking families is high in Ankara, and such a study has not been conducted before, was chosen for the study. A total of 40 secondary school teachers working in secondary schools selected from different socio-economic districts of the Keçiören district of Ankara in the 2021-2022 academic year constituted the study group. A semi-structured interview form was used as the data collection tool. The opinions of the teachers were obtained with the approval of the Gazi University Ethics Committee and the permission of the Ministry of National Education. The content analysis method designed for qualitative research was used in the study. In this context, when the opinions of the teachers participating in the study were evaluated, communication with immigrant and asylum-seeking students was expressed as an important problem. As a result of the study, the teachers' opinions on the communication problem were determined as follows. The teachers stated that they communicated with students who could not communicate with the help of an interpreter, students who could not perceive the instructions correctly during the lesson because of the language problem, students who could not adapt to the environment and had difficulty in active participation in the lesson. About the negativities caused by the communication problems of the students, the teachers said that the students could not adapt to the classroom environment, their participation in the lesson was incomplete or none at all, students isolated themselves from the environment, they were dealing with extracurricular things when they could not communicate, the dropouts and absenteeism increased, and their academic success was affected negatively.