Abstract :
Staring from the question of ‘how much prepared for the changing demographic structure of our school and our class as educators?’, the purpose of this research is to evaluate the educational service provided to the refugee students who are trained in secondary school according to social studies teacher opinions. A thorough investigation is carried out on education as a social group of refugees in the research. This research is a case study model, one of the qualitative research methods. Criteria sampling method, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods, has been adopted in the study group of the study. The criterion is that it provides at least one educational year for the refugee students. In this context, the study group consists of 10 social studies teachers who provide education to the refugees in state secondary schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education, which is located in the Altınordu province of Ordu in 2016-2017 educational years. Semi-structured interview technique was used to collect research data. The research data were analyzed by descriptive analysis in accordance with the nature of the qualitative research. According to research findings, the participants think that the content of social studies course was insufficient in terms of adapting refugees in our country, and for other local students to accept refugee students, the main reason for this was stated as language insufficiency, it was also found that the participants thought that it was important to include some topics in social studies curriculum as asylum, refugee rights and freedom, cultural elements that refugees bring in our society. According to the results of the research, it is suggested to organize the social studies curriculum and the course contents considering the refugee status; to take refugee education the in-service trainings so that the social studies teachers can teach such groups, and to provide the refugee students with environments where they can reflect their own cultural elements.
