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Developing inclusive education policies and practices in Turkey: a study of the roles of UNESCO and local educators

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According to UNESCO's 2010 survey results of 58 member countries, 34 of the countries had less than 1 percent of children enrolled in special education programs. Ten of these countries provided special education provision for less than .01 percent of children. However, the demand to educate students with disabilities in inclusive educational settings continues to grow. Thus, there are many national initiatives aimed at finding ways of creating forms of inclusive educational settings that can respond to children with special needs. In this study, the purpose was to better understand the processes of local adaptation and modification of UNESCO's inclusive education policies, the possible resistances to global forces in inclusive education in Turkey, and the consequences of the implications of those policies in Ankara, Turkey from local educators' views. With that goal in mind, recently adopted Turkish inclusive educational policies implemented after the Salamanca Statement in 1994 were reviewed on a selective basis. The discussion of the policy and document analysis section helped to make connections between the global inclusive education policy changes and local practices in the Turkish education system. In the second part of the study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with local educators in Ankara (teachers, administrators, and academic advisors) and policy makers from the Ministry of National Education. An analysis of the interview data highlighted the various complexities, tensions, and inadequacies in the conceptualization of inclusive education in Turkish public primary schools that study participants have observed and experienced. In light of the findings, possible reasons behind the gap between theory and practice and the discrepancies between Western and Turkish interpretations of inclusive education in Turkey are discussed. In the current inclusive education system in Turkey, the challenge of modifying deeply held attitudes at both personal and institutional levels, providing clearly constructed inclusive education policies and approaches, offering appropriate training to key stakeholders, and making adequate resources available appear to be the primary issues for moving forward with full inclusion initiatives.

ContributorsCiyer, Aysegul (Author) / Swadener, Beth B (Thesis advisor) / Artiles, Alfredo (Committee member) / Tobin, Joseph (Committee member) / Mathur, Sarup (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)

Created2010

The Greatest Consumer: Long Term Economic Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the United States Domestic Industry

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This thesis analyzes the effects of the United States involvement in its first, and longest, multilateral free trade agreement with its two largest neighbor nations: The North American Free Trade Agreement. The research question which is explored and analyzed here is: How has the North American Free Trade Agreement affected the United States domestic industry and if the United States should involve itself in this type of agreement? With the United States shift from isolationist and protectionist practices it came to accept globalist economic policies, such as free trade. However, as the world's largest consumer the acceptance and implementation of these free trade policies has led to economic harm. This is shown through the historical data of trade between the countries involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement and it is found that there are significant harmful effects on the United State as a result of this agreement. Specifically, the United States heavy loss of domestic industry and loss of income. The United States involvement in the North American Free Trade Agreement is described and analyzed using the logic models of classical and neoclassical trade theories. It is found that these trade theories' inappropriate application could explain the United States involvement in the North American Free Trade Agreement. Finally, using the ideas of classical and neoclassical trade theories it is determined that the best option for the United States to rebuild its domestic industry is to participate in protectionist and isolationist policies.
Keywords: The North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, Classical Trade Theory, Neoclassical Trade Theory, United States Domestic Industry, Domestic Industry, Consumer Nation, Producer Nation, Comparative Advantage, Supply and Demand, Trade Deficit, Protectionism, Globalism

ContributorsBenado Smasch, James Antanaychis (Co-author) / Benado Smasch, James A. (Co-author) / Oliver, Jerry (Thesis director) / Ron, Amit (Committee member) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor) / School of Public Affairs (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)

Created2020-05

Knowing the Future: Visions of the Bioeconomy and the Politics of Global Transformation

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This dissertation explores the contemporary politics of global transformation: the ways biological expertise and economic rationalities are positioned as agents of governance in the face of emerging global crisis. It examines visions for a new bioeconomy that are offered in response to impending global crisis. Leaders point to calculations of global population growth and resource depletion to predict future crises and call for a new bioeconomy as a pillar of sustainable and “good” governance.

Focusing on visions and practices of bioeconomy-making in the U.S. and Brazil, the dissertation examines bioeconomy discourse as a response to global crisis and a framework of global governance that promises resource abundance and human wellbeing. Bioeconomy discourse makes visible shared notions of how the world is and how it should be that animate the world-making practices of bioeconomy. The dissertation analyzes the bioeconomy as simultaneously a product of existing institutional and nationally situated values and rationalities, and a significant site of performative novelty. It is an effort to reformulate existing projects in the biosciences—from technology regulation to market formation—and establish new rationalities of governance in the name of producing thoroughgoing transformations to both the global economy and to life itself.

Framing existing scientific and economic rationalities as suppressed and misdirected in their power to govern, bioeconomy proponents envision a novel order derivable from the proper conjugation of biological and economic rationalities. Through the lens of bioconstitutionalism, the dissertation elucidates how national, scientific and public rights and responsibilities are coproduced in relation to a sociotechnical imaginary of vital conjuring. Underwritten by the imaginary of vital conjuring, visions of a future transformed promise that abundance and order can be called up from a tangle of crisis and decay. The imaginary of vital conjuring marries a vision of the technological potential of biological life and the forms of economy capable of unlocking that potential. This vision of bioeconomy, the dissertation argues, is a vision of governance: of the right relationships between state, citizen and science.

ContributorsDoezema, Tess A (Author) / Hurlbut, James B (Thesis advisor) / Miller, Clark A. (Committee member) / Bennett, Gaymon (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)

Created2020