Hacettepe and Middle East Technical Universities: New universities in Turkey

Reed, Howard A.

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“…The 1950s saw a spurt of new universities, which included the founding of a new public university in which all teaching was in English (Dodd, 1962). The university was an outcome of encouragement and financial aid by the United Nations, as well as later by the likes of Ford Foundation and the US Agency for International Development (Reed, 1975). The university was purportedly to extend its reach to students from the Middle East (Okyar, 1967; hence the name Middle East Technical University – METU), which it did do, though only limitedly and for a brief period of time (Reed, 1975).…”

Section: Empirical Context: Turkish Universities and The Language Of Instructionmentioning

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Diffusion of Pure and Hybrid Forms of a Practice: Language of Instruction in Turkish Universities, 1983–2014

Topaler

Üsdiken

2020

European Management Review

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It is well recognized in the literature that practice variation is an integral part of diffusion processes. What remains less explored is the emergence of distinct forms of a novel practice and the interdependencies in their diffusion. In this study, we make a distinction between the pure version of a practice and ensuing hybrid variants and investigate how diffusion processes unfold for these alternative practice forms. Our empirical investigation in the Turkish higher education field demonstrates that hybrid practice forms became viable alternatives to the pure version of instruction in English and diffused in an interdependent manner. Further, diffusion of pure and hybrid forms was uneven across private and public universities. Our study contributes to the diffusion and practice variety literature as we establish that multiple versions of a practice that diffuse concurrently in a field may be building on or hampering each other, and they may diffuse in fragmented ways across different sub-populations.

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Section: Empirical Context: Turkish Universities and The Language Of Instructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diffusion of Pure and Hybrid Forms of a Practice: Language of Instruction in Turkish Universities, 1983–2014

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Üsdiken

2020

European Management Review

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“…Rapprochement between the two countries had occurred due to Turkey's economic and security needs, and its geo-strategic significance for the USA as a neighbor to what was then the Soviet Union. Two of these universities were established in the late 1950s -one as a public university and the other, first as an American college, then to become a Turkish public university in 1971, while the third was founded in the 1960s (Reed 1975). The educational programs, content, and procedures, including instruction in English, were taken wholesale from the USA.…”

Section: Management Studies At the Periphery: The Turkish Casementioning

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“…The modernization and westernization mission that higher education had come to be charged with was also present. So was the first degree emphasis, despite the introduction of masters' degrees (Reed 1975). Neither would the Turkish faculty members have been immune to the country's intellectual heritage of importing foreign knowledge and methods for contributing to socio-economic development.…”

Section: Intra-national Variety: the Effects Of Institutional Modelsmentioning

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Preaching, Teaching and Researching at the Periphery:Academic Management Literature in Turkey, 1970—1999

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Wasti

2009

Organization Studies

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Internationally accessible academic literature in management has been dominated very largely by contributions originating from the USA. Although this state of imbalance has attracted some discussion, little systematic research exists on scholarly activity in a large majority of countries that have limited presence in international academic outlets. To this end, we investigated the academic literature produced in Turkey over the last three decades, as an example of a country located at the periphery of management scholarship and where the management discipline developed under strong US influence. Based on a content analysis of articles published in local and international academic journals, cluster-analytic results indicated that the predominant form of scholarly output comprised a practice-oriented, nonempirical, de-contextualized literature, which served to transport American theories and practices to domestic audiences. The limitedly adopted scientific model manifested marginally greater interest in the local context. Further analysis showed that the type of university in which scholarly activity was carried out was highly significant. Academics working in American-modeled public and private universities were more likely to base their work on the scientific model imported wholesale from the USA. The post-1980 change in the institutional regime geared towards bringing Turkish higher education closer to American models and driving international publications, however, did not appear to have altered the overall panorama of scholarly activity in management, at least over a period of 15 years.

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“…This council was initially made up of university presidents, faculty deans and representatives from government and was charged, among other things, with the task of setting up principles common to all universities and regulating and standardizing procedures concerning such matters as admission of graduates, minimal course requirements and duration of study (Reed 1975). These variations were much debated among university administrators and within universities, as well as government circles starting in the early 1970s.…”

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Main trends in graduate study in basic sciences in Turkish universities: a quantitative overview

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This paper seeks to trace the development of graduate studies in basic sciences in Turkish universities from origins to the present day. The study includes a sketch of the historical background of higher education from its start in medieval madrasahs and Istanbul Darulfunun ('The House of Sciences'), to the transition into present-day university education, i.e., to the beginnings of modern graduate study and the emergence of new universities. Empirical statistics are given to substantiate the rapid growth of graduate study and of the number of degrees produced since the 1980s. The mean number of Ph.D. Degrees per year has increased from a few in a single university in the 1930s to nearly a hundred in today's twenty seven universities in Turkeyin the 1980s. Finally, a quantitative overview of the growth trends in graduate study in basic sciences as well as an assessment of the present degree productivity of Turkish universities are presented.

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Hacettepe and Middle East Technical Universities: New universities in Turkey

Cited by 12 publications

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Diffusion of Pure and Hybrid Forms of a Practice: Language of Instruction in Turkish Universities, 1983–2014

Diffusion of Pure and Hybrid Forms of a Practice: Language of Instruction in Turkish Universities, 1983–2014

Preaching, Teaching and Researching at the Periphery:Academic Management Literature in Turkey, 1970—1999

Main trends in graduate study in basic sciences in Turkish universities: a quantitative overview

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