The Academic Events Group, 5th Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research,

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THE EXPECTATIONS OF GIRL ADOLESCENTS WORKING OR NOT WORKING AS SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL LABORER REGARDING THEIR OWN FUTURE
Hatice Bekir, Remzi Aydın, Güldeniz Arbaş

Last modified: 2016-02-08

Abstract


Despite there are significant improvements at education and employment of girls in rural family structure this hasn’t been reached to desired level yet. When working as seasonal agricultural laborer aspect is added to this situation, the education and qualified employment of girls at later ages grows much more difficult. For this reason this research, has been planned and carried out for the purpose of determining the expectations of girl adolescents working or not working as seasonal agricultural laborer regarding their own future.

At the research, among qualitative research patterns phenomenological method approach has been utilized. The study group of the research is formed by 20 voluntary students of the secondary school 8th grade students in Silvan Town of Diyarbakir City that 7 of them works as seasonal agricultural laborer and 13 of them do not work which has been chosen by maximum diversity sampling of purposeful sampling (criterion) methods. Data, has been compiled with semi-structured interview and individual interview method that has been prepared by the researchers. Descriptive and content analysis method has been utilized at the analysis of the data. The results and interpretations of the research is limited to represent the study group and in order to maintain the validity and reliability of the results in-depth data gathering methods has been utilized.

As a result of the research, since 11 of the girl adolescents (3 of which works as seasonal agricultural laborer, 8 do not) have positive ideas about their future, 9 (4 of which works as seasonal agricultural laborer, 5 do not) have expressed negative statements regarding their future. Among the negative ideas of girl adolescents regarding their future, there are statements expressing that they live in negative conditions even now, they have difficulty to have basic education, even arguments about the continuation of their education in the future is present. The majority of girl adolescents in each group expressed that their parents assume a restrictive and over preservative attitude about their own future

Key words: Seasonal Agricultural Laborer, Girl Student, Girl Adolescent


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