Analysis of “From Good Examples in Education to Original Practices” Projects of Istanbul Directorate of National Education in the Scope of Values

Abstract

The project “From Good Examples In Education To Original Practices” of İstanbul Directorate of National Education, with the application rate of studies from 39 districts increasing every year is an indicator of the teachers’ for learning and growing demand for developing innovative applications that directly concern educational fields. In order to think with the aim of education, to make efforts and to disseminate original activities with an exemplary attitude, out of a total of 5 thousand 119 applications, 111 were able to stay at the exhibition stage in the projects of 2019-2020 consisted in the categories of effective
teaching, special education, science and technology, culture, art and sports, environment and school aesthetics. The purpose of this study was to determine which values were included in the 111 Projects that were eligible to be exhibited from 39 districts within the scope of the “Good Examples in Education to Original Practices” project of the İstanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education and how much they were included. The values contained in the projects were presented in tables and the value discourses were directly exemplified by quotations. As a result of the research, the most common value expressions in the projects are cooperation, unity, diligence , responsibility, happiness, love, respect, while the least seen values are honesty, hospitality, national and religious holidays, cleanliness, peace, and humility.