TY - JOUR AU - Guven, İsmail PY - 2022/06/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Neo-liberalism and the Local Response Teacher Education Reform: A Specific Reference to Turkish Teacher Education JF - ITALIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JA - IJEduR VL - IS - 28 SE - Papers DO - 10.7346/sird-012022-p15 UR - https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/sird/article/view/5673 SP - 015-027 AB - <p>This article examines the impact of neoliberalism on teacher education in Turkey in terms of the specific teacher education reforms made in 1997. First, the article analyzes how neoliberalism influenced teacher preparation and teacher education institutions. Second, it examines the changes made for content knowl-edge in teacher education. Third, the article elicits how the teaching professions changed under the pa-tronage of neoliberalism in Turkey. To make the system more efficient and competitive, neoliberals introduced a market approach into teacher education and, as a result, teacher education became a means of preparing teacher candidates for the global market system. Neoliberalism restructured educational policies, teacher education curriculum, and the schooling and education practices, working conditions of teachers, the quality of educational facilities, and the teaching profession in general. Neoliberal education changed the nature of teacher education and teacher education has evolved from an academic discipline to a technical one.</p> ER -