The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
Abstract
The students who cannot get involved in mainstream and formal education and who are in need of special training because of several reasons can benefit from home education services, alternatively. Home education services are an inseparable and important part of education system. When the literature is examined, it is seen that there is so little research done on home education services. So, the purpose of this research is to determine both application-oriented and process-oriented views of teachers who participate in home education services. In accordance with this purpose, both application and process oriented views of the teachers who participate in home education services are determined by the open ended questions based on literature. The provided questions are applied on working group after put into final form thanks to the views of leading experts. In this research, which is a qualitative research type and descriptive case study, the working group includes three teachers who are defined by the homogeneous sampling of purposeful sampling methods and working in home education services in Agri province. Descriptive analysis has been used for analysing the data taken from the research. Charts are used for the presentation of findings. According to the findings of the research; all of the teachers in working group believe that home education services are necessary and useful. It has been determined that the teachers in working group consult to home education services for different reasons, they have various problems in implementation of process and they have given common answers for the part of the deficients of the process and suggestions for filling the deficiencies. It has been believed that this research will contribute to literature. Keywords: Home education services, the views of teachers, educatio
