Neo-liberal education policies in Turkey and transformation in education

As it is in many countries in the world, in Turkey the effects of neoliberal ideology have rapidly increased since the 1980s, and social and economic structure has been transformed. Education, which is the basic dynamic of constructing social and economic structure and regeneration, stands in the center of neoliberalism. In this process, what determines education is global policies and market relations rather than public. Every practice, such as privatization of education, decreasing public expenses, enforcing "flexible" working, leaving employees without insurance and making the curriculum more conservative is a result of neoliberal policies. Descending all these actions to the level of simple evaluation prevents a detailed analysis of the reasons for these policies while also hindering the response to these policies. In this study, neoliberal education policies practiced in Turkey and transformation in education are described with a critical perspective.