Türkiye'de Ailelerin Eğitim İhtiyaçları - Aile ve Toplum Hizmetleri ...

Educational Needs Of Families In Turkey
single parent families, extension of the concubinage, increase in number of the
illegitimate children, rise of drug addiction, rejecting or postponing getting married
and having a child late as much as possible drive family, which is an important compo-
nent of the social system into trouble in the matter of performing its functions.
In spite of various problems encountered in the matter of family’s performing its
main functions within society, only unchanging issue on the basis is the fact that family
is at the centre of the child’s life and it leads life of the child positively or negatively. A
child coming into the world obtains information belonging to society and culture,
where he or she will live firstly and in the most concrete way within family. Child
achieves beginning of communication with social environment and other people in
family. Importance of the concept of the family becomes clearer considering the fact
that influence of the family institution on individual in terms of being permanent and
formative. Family, which is natural environment of the individual, has the greatest
power and function in bringing up an individual. Nothing in life of an individual can
be replaced with family, which is the smallest unit of the society. Parents are natural
members of educational and developmental processes of their children. The only and
most important issue, which a person does not have freedom to choose throughout his
or her life, is family that he/she belongs to. As against the fact that individual does not
have a right to choose his or her family, establishment and maintenance of suitable
environments for bringing up children as socially and spiritually healthy individuals
depends on family’s behaving knowledgeably and consciously. For that reason, as natural
educators of the children, parents must take part in educational process consciously
and systematically.
Family education handled within this scope is considered as a way of acquiring
communication skills, which are necessary to develop child rearing perception and
family relations at the present time. Educational programs -which will enable parents
to achieve their “parenthood” roles other than behaviours they acquire through their
daily experiences in a safe way-, are needed. To meet that need, programs called
“Family School”, “Family Education” and “Parent School” have been prepared and
conducted in order to educate parents particularly in recent years. Main purpose of the
trainings conducted under title of the family education is to enable parents to acquire
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