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Current Status -
February 2007
The History of LVE in Turkey.
The first LVEP Educator Seminar was held in Istanbul in 1997. It was followed by
three meetings for interested teachers. From 1998 onwards Ms Sema Ozsoy assumed
the responsibility of being the coordinator for the program in Turkey. At the
beginning of 1999 two seminars took place, one on February 27, 1999 given by Sue
Emery and another on April 17, 1999 by Maggie Pinar. In the first teachers from
different levels of education participated. The second seminar involved mainly
university teachers. A follow-up meeting was held in June 12, 1999. Although a
small group of teachers attended lots of valuable ideas were discussed.
During the summer and autumn of 1999 contacts with INGED, the English Language
Teachers Association, were realized. Two seminars resulted, one Ankara on
November 20, 1999 and another on November 21, 1999 in Izmir, both for English
language teacher trainers. Sue Emery gave both seminars.
Up to August 2000, the Living Values Guidebook and the manual of Living Values
Educators Kit were translated into Turkish. The Living Values Guidebook was
translated by Cankiz Sanal and edited by Yesim Ozsoy, both as contributions. The
manual of the Living Values Educators Kit was translated by three students from
the Simultaneous Translations Department of Bosphorous University under the
tutoring of their teacher, Nigar Alemdar.
Regular LVEP Educator Seminars for teachers of pre-school, elementary and high
school teachers were conducted during the years 1998-2004. LVEP blossomed in
Turkey in 2002 and 2003. LVEP is now a values program that is familiar to many
schools. Factors involved were "sowing the seeds", a few short television
programs, an article in a well-read newspaper and word of mouth. Educators and
schools who already took the LVEP Educator Training are a good source of
reference for others. Almost all the schools that were given the training either
started to implement LVEP partially or school-wide.
IMPLEMANTATION STATUS
The schools that took the seminars are implementing LVEP in different degrees.
The list is as follows:
Name of Schools:
- KOC llkogretim Okulu
- OzelTEKAnaokulu
- Ozel TEK ilkogretim Okulu
- ISIK Lisesi- Maslak ISIK Lisesi-
- Erenkoy DORUK Anaokulu
- NDS ilkogretim Okulu
- Ozel KEMER Koleji
- SEMBOL Ilkogretim Okulu
- ROBERT Lisesi Anaokulu
- BILKENT Ilkogretim Okulu
BILKENT llkogretrim Okulu decided to do a three-day seminar in September 2003.
Helen Sawyer from Switzerland kindly agreed to conduct the program in September,
after which the school began implementation. The school's Headmaster had been
visiting primary schools in the USA and was very impressed by the positive
atmosphere at one of them. When she questioned the reason she was told that LVEP
was being implemented there. This played a major role in the school’s decision
to take the LVEP Educator Trianing.
TRAINING FOR STREET CHILDREN
The LVEP Training for Street Educators was realized with the cooperation of
several parties during 6 -13 December 2003 in Istanbul. The Turkish National
Committee of UNICEF and the Social Services and Child Care Organization of the
Turkish Government were the main sponsors. The Turkish Government allocated the
venue (the Conference Room of the Governor of Istanbul and the Rotary Child
Center in Istanbul), and UNICEF paid the traveling expenses of the trainers and
the participants. The Galatasaray Rotary Club provided lunch, tea and coffee
expenses of the group throughout the program. Aynur Tuncer did all the written
translation of Living Values Activities for Street Children Ages 7-10 and also
for LVASC Ages 11-14 free of charge. Participants were psychologists and social
workers from Government agencies responsible for the street children. Diane
Tillman was not able to come for the training because of her health problems.
Patricia Summerfield made it happen by replacing her at the last minute. There
were 18 participants for the TTT and 18 + 13 for the LVASC Educator Training.
There were three international participants: one from Pakistan, one from
Switzerland and one from England. Three of the participants were policemen from
Istanbul Children's Police Department. All of the participants except two were
entitled to certificates. Dominique Ache and Benoit Duche were able to work with
10 to 15 children for five days and put on a show on the last day of the program
for the participants. Benoit Duche filmed the process. Istanbul Deputy Governor,
Mr. Mehmet Seyman visited the program venue and expressed his thanks at site to
everybody involved in the program. Siyma Barkin, assistant to the educational
department related with the project at UNICEF sent a message expressing her
organization's appreciations of the project results.
TRANSLATIONS
Translations of the following LVEP books are realized:
Living Values Activities for Children 3-7
Living Values Activities for Children 8-14
Living Values Activities for Young Adults
Living Values Activities for Street Children Ages 7-10
Living Values Activities for Street Children Ages 11-14
The above LVEP books were translated by Aynur Tuncer. Many thanks to her for her
dedicated work.
The Living Values Guidebook was translated by Cankiz Sanal and edited by Yesim
Ozsoy. Thanks to both of them for their cooperation.
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