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    Amidst fury, regret, and remorse: An analysis of university students who were placed in disliked majors
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2017) Toprak, Mustafa; Tosten, Rasim
    This study is an attempt to uncover the factors leading students to study in the majors they dislike. Using a qualitative design, the study aims to explore the forces that cause students to make career choices against their will, and to investigate their future plans during their struggles with their parents and disliked majors. The study was conducted with 13 first-year university students who studied different majors within a school of education. Since the foci of the study were students who disliked their majors and were placed in teaching departments against their will, a purposive sampling technique was used during the selection of participants, and data were analyzed through the content analysis technique. The study revealed that the students had been placed into disliked majors under the simultaneous influence of either one or several forces, such as parental pressure to keep their children geographically close, perceived employment opportunities, life-time job security given to teachers at public schools, fatigue, and failure to get a high scores to be placed in their preferred choice. The study presents suggestions for educational policy-makers by discussing determinants of teaching career choices, by making specific references to parental influences on their children's decision-making, and by showing that some teacher candidates are placed in teaching majors by making random choices.
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    Positive psychological capital and emotional labor: A study in educational organizations
    (Taylor & Francis As, 2017) Tosten, Rasim; Toprak, Mustafa
    This study aims to explore the effects of teachers' psychological capital competencies on their emotional labor competencies based on their perceptions. It follows a quantitative research design adopting survey method. Data were collected from 266 teachers working in Siirt Province, Turkey. The results show that teachers have high levels of positive psychological capital (all self-efficacy, optimism, trust, extraversion, and hope dimensions) and though relatively low compared to psychological capital competencies, they often display emotional labor behaviors. It was also found out that PsyCap competencies teachers possess have an impact on their tendency to display emotional labor behaviors. The study presents valuable theoretical and practical implications for research on PsyCap and emotional labor at school organizations.
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    School Physical Education courses: A study on challenges and on restoring their functions
    (Pegem Akad Yayincilik Egitim Danismanlik Hizmetleri Tic Ltd Sti, 2021) Toprak, Mustafa; Avci, Yunus Emre; Cengiz, Omer
    This study represents an effort to explore and understand the experiences of individuals who have significant stakes on Physical Education and Sports (PES) courses either through being practically involved in teaching or planning this course or by being theoretically engaged in discourses relevant to the nature and normative enactment of the course. The main purpose of this study is to explore the status of Physical Education course through unveiling the voices of significant stakeholders. To this end, this qualitative study relied on several parameters: an examination of curriculum of physical education, Ministry of Education's (MoNE's) efforts and initiative to increase success at sports, the role of sports clubs at school along with an exploration of key 29 stakeholders' experiences through semi-structured interviews. The results gathered through content analysis highlight that physical education and sports courses are mostly perceived of little worth, and that development of a strong sport culture is largely hindered by financial, systemic, and administrative constraints. The study also points out the urgent call for introduction of system-wide regulations and policies and further fortification of facilities.
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    Teacher stress and work-family conflict: examining a moderation model of psychological capital
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Toprak, Mustafa; Tosten, Rasim; Elcicek, Zakir
    Schools are becoming more stressful work environments, and teachers are becoming more vulnerable to job-related stress because of innovation overload, high job demands, and work-family conflict (WFC). Enhancing teachers' psychological capacities may prove helpful in managing stress under such work conditions. While past research has focused on the relationship between WFC and stress, there is limited empirical evidence in the education context on the effect of psychological capital (PsyCap) on changing the magnitude of (moderating) the interplays between WFC and stress. Therefore, this study investigates the moderation effect of teachers' positive PsyCap on the relationship between teachers' WFC and job stress. We adopted a quantitative research method and collected data from a randomly selected sample of 385 teachers in Siirt, a city in the South-East region of Turkey. Data were analyzed through descriptive, correlation, and hierarchical moderated regression statistics. Results indicated that WFC increases teachers' job stress, and PsyCap moderates the relationship between WFC and job stress by mitigating the effects of WFC on teachers' job stress.
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    Türkiye’de veliler üzerine yapılan araştırmalar: Lisansüstü tezlerin bir meta sentez çalışması
    (2021) Türkay, Ahmet; Toprak, Mustafa; Tösten, Rasim
    Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de veliler üzerinde eğitim bağlamında yapılan lisansüstü tez çalışmalarını meta-sentez yöntemi kullanarak analiz etme ve bu çalışmalardaki araştırma eğilimleri belirlemek ve sonuçları analiz etmek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Yüksek Öğretim Kurumu (YÖK) Ulusal Tez Tarama Merkezi veri tabanının taranması ile yürütülen araştırmada, 2016-2021 yılları arasında yürütülmüş 5 doktora 54 yüksek lisans tezi olmak üzere toplam 59 çalışma amaçlar, örneklem grubu, kullanılan yöntem, veri toplama aracı ve sonuçlar açısından incelenmiştir. Araştırmada, çalışmaların en fazla velilerin okul tercih nedenlerinin, beklenti ve memnuniyetlerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla gerçekleştirildiği tespit edilmiştir. Çalışmalarının çoğunluğunun nicel araştırma metotları kullanılarak, ortaokul ve ilkokul velileri üzerine yürütüldüğü de diğer sonuçlar arasındadır. Bu çalışmada araştırmaların sonuçları tartışılmış ve gelecekteki araştırmalar için bazı öneriler de sunulmuştur.
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    Türkiye’deki Kamu Okullarında Bürokrasi: Mevcut Ampirik Çalışmaların Tematik Bir Analizi
    (2022) Toprak, Mustafa; Saylık, Ahmet; Törün, Merve Kaya
    Bu araştırmanın amacı, Türkiye’deki okullarda bürokratik yapı ile ilgili yapılan araştırmaların genel bir görünümü ile bu araştırma bulgularının tematik bir analizini sunmaktır. Sistematik inceleme metodu kullanılarak yürütülen araştırma, 2004-2020 yılları arasında Türkiye’de yapılan akademik çalışmaların topografik ve tematik bir analizini kapsamaktadır. Belirlenen dahil etme ve hariç tutma kriterlerine göre, Google Akademik ve Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu Ulusal Tez Merkezi’nin taranması sonucu araştırmaya onyedi lisans üstü tez, onbir araştırma makalesi olmak üzere toplam yirmi sekiz araştırma dahil edilmiştir. Araştırma mevcut çalışmaların büyük çoğunluğunun lisansüstü tez olduğunu ve nicel araştırma metotlarının araştırmacıların büyük çoğunluğu tarafından tercih edildiğini göstermektedir. Seçilen bu araştırmaların tematik analizi sonucunda, a) bürokratik yapı ve okul liderliği, b) bürokratik yapı, görüşler, tutum ve örgütsel davranış, c) bürokratik yapı ve mesleki öğrenme olmak üzere üç ana tema oluşturulmuş ve araştırma bulguları bu ana temalara göre tartışılmıştır. Araştırma, Türkiye’de okullardaki bürokratik yapının engelleyici bir unsur olarak görülmesinin yanında kolaylaştırıcı ve bireyleri olumlu etkileyici yönlerinin olduğunu da ortaya koymaktadır.