Browsing by Author "Karadas, Halil"

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Exploring the Sources of Success for Refugee Students With High Academic Performance: Experiences at Two High Schools in Southeast Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Arar, Khalid; Karadas, Halil; Culha, Ali
There is considerable literature on the challenges of refugee students, including the low performance of refugee students. However, we also know that some refugee students, although very few, show high performance in schools, and the achievements of these students are often overlooked. Intending to this gap in knowledge, therefore this qualitative phenomenological study, aims at exploring the possible sources behind the success of refugee students with high academic performance by using the opinions of school administrators, teachers, and students, triangulated with school observations. Findings indicate that the inclusive school environment, individual characteristics, family, and community-based engagement play a significant role in the emergence of this high academic. performance. Further conclusions and implications for education stakeholders tending to refugee academic performance are fully discussed.
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A Silent Threat To Children's School Road Safety in Türkiye: the Impact of Stray Dog Attacks
(Elsevier, 2025) Dag, Abdullatif; Karadas, Halil
The aim of this study is to reveal the effects of stray dogs on school road safety and to provide practical suggestions for solving the problem. The study was conducted in schools located in residential areas where stray dogs are densely populated in Mardin. Phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The study was conducted with the participation of stakeholders in seven different schools, including central and village schools. In T & uuml;rkiye, it has been determined that stray dogs endanger children's road safety to school and prevent equal opportunities in education. Research results show that stray dogs negatively affect the safety of not only students but also other stakeholders of the school. According to the results, stray dogs cause fear, panic, stress, reluctance to school, lack of self-confidence in students and other stakeholders in psychological terms, and chasing, falling and getting injured, biting and traffic accidents in physical terms. Stray dogs cause different negative effects such as preventing students and other school stakeholders from accessing the school, causing students to be absent, affecting the school's course operation, spreading infectious diseases and creating visual pollution in the environment. In the context of these results, it can be said that adopting stray dogs first and taking the dogs that are not adopted to shelters will contribute to school road safety.
Investigation of Disaster Management Perceptions of School Administrators: The Case of Kahramanmaraş Earthquake
(Elsevier, 2025) Is, Engin; Karadas, Halil
This study examined the problems school administrators face during disasters and the strategies they develop to address these problems within the framework of disaster management theories. A phenomenological design was adopted, and purposive sampling was used to select 22 school administrators (8 female, 14 male). The findings show how disaster management, crisis management, and resilience theories are reflected in school management practices and highlight the need for systematic preparation. Due to the frequent occurrence of earthquakes and floods in Turkey, school administrators reported the necessity of strengthening support mechanisms related to preparedness, response, and risk reduction. The results indicate that administrators require comprehensive training on disaster preparedness, crisis response, and mitigation strategies. By linking these findings to resilience theory, the study underscores how administrators' adaptive practices contribute to organizational readiness in disaster-prone educational contexts.
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The Relationship Between Teachers' Cultural Intelligence and Multicultural Education Attitude: The Mediating Role of Intercultural Sensitivity1
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2024) Katitas, Sevda; Coskun, Basak; Karadas, Halil
In this research, the relationship between teachers' cultural intelligence and multicultural education attitude was investigated with the mediating role of intercultural sensitivity. The main research aim was to contribute to the cultural intelligence and multicultural education literature. The research was conducted with a cross-sectional correlational method, and the data was gathered from 600 teachers working in the six of the provinces with the highest Syrian refugee population in Turkey. Convenient sampling and criterion sampling methods were employed in the sample design. In accordance with the aim of the research and criterion sampling method, the teachers with at least one Syrian student in their classes participated in the research. In the analysis of structural relationships among the variables, structural equation modeling was employed. Bootstrap method was used to estimate the effect size and confidence intervals and significance level. The research findings revealed that cultural intelligence had direct and indirect effects on teachers' multicultural education attitude through intercultural sensitivity. The results showed that intercultural sensitivity had a significant role in the relationship between cultural intelligence and multicultural education attitude. This result underlines the importance of interpreting intercultural sensitivity as a promising factor in developing positive attitudes for multicultural education.