Situation and Future of Social Work Education in Turkey

Abstract

This chapter discusses the development of social work education in Turkey. Uncontrolled increases of social work departments, lack of skilled labour, the lack of standard training programs and globalisation leads Turkish Social Work education system to make some inevitable renovations The main problems in education are as follows; education is carried out with the principles that was set by the 1960s, the existence of non-standardized education programs due to the rapid increases of departments, the presence of people who do not get social work education in social work departments as a lecturer, education programs without new and challenging topics such as immigration, refugee, technological use. Turkey while searching for the solution to these problems needs to take into consideration the political and social position and should not ignore social issues. The purpose of this chapter is to study past, today and future of social work education in Turkey. This chapter also tries to answer what is the position of social work education in globalised world. Moreover, this study tries to summaries cause and effect of experienced and possible problems.