As a Practice Example Project, Housewives Ownership to Urban Space: The City is Mine

Abstract

The basis of this study is the project called "City is Mine", which is a social responsibility project implemented in cooperation with the Esenler Municipality, Directorate of Women and Family Services and the General Directorate of Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of National Education, aiming at women's ownership of the city through trainings and the dissemination of urban behaviors in the society through women. Project consists of six modules, which are delivered in formal training environment by Ministry of National Education's Public Education Center, as follows: Being a Townbred, Loving the Environment, Building the Future, Good Neighborhood, Our National Cultural Values and Fundamental Human Rights. These modules aim at making the participants have belonging to the city, urban life culture and urban behavior. In this direction, practical workshops were held to support theoretical training on behalf of non-formal-adult education practices. Local participation was ensured with practical trainings such as painting stairs, collecting garbage, planting flowers and decorating trees. During the work, it was seen that the stairs of a street in Esenler Yavuz Selim Neighborhood were painted, the garbage of the neighborhood garden was collected, the trees in the playground were decorated, flowers were planted in front of the apartment doors and they tried to beautify the place they lived in. With these