Neoliberal Policies and Reflections on Education in Turkey

Authors : Mete SİPAHİOGLU

Pages : 14-25

View : 23 | Download : 27

Publication Date : 2020-06-04

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Neoliberal policies have been imposed all over the world with the saying `there is no alternative` to save the world economy from the crisis environment since the 1970s. As a result, state structures and policies have been reshaped under the influence of neoliberal policies. With the neoliberal transformation, education was restructured in line with the demands of international actors such as the World Bank insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WB);, the International Monetary Fund insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(IMF); and the General Agreement on Trade in Services insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(GATS);. As far as Turkey is concerned, until the 1970s controlled financial regulations, inflation, political instability, acts of terrorism, and such issues had started to block government policies. After 1980, the political instability in the economy and the problems experiencing in Turkey, caused the neoliberal transformation. In this sense, the purpose of this paper was to examine the concept of neoliberalism and neoliberal policy reflections on education in Turkey and trying to find out some arguments which have been arguing by educational scientists and policy-makers since the neoliberal oppression on education was started to implement.
Keywords : neoliberalism, neoliberal policies, reflections on education, Turkey