Abstract :
In this study, education planning practices carried out within development plans by the State Planning Organization / Ministry of Development were investigated. The research question of the current study involves; determining how the education plans are developed, identifying the problems encountered during preparation, application and monitoring phases of the education plans, and identifying the effects of the changes in planning approach to the education plans, based on opinions of the specialists, assistant specialists and the managers. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals who paly a role in educational planning in the State Planning Organization / Ministry of Development. Based on the theoretical framework of the research, descriptive analysis was applied to the collected data. The results showed that: the training in education field was not a professional requirement for education planning experts, the development plan was taken as a whole and that education is a part of the development plan like the other sectors, identification of targets was done considering the current situation and resources, the target of the plans were heavily inluenced by political authorities, the education plans included abstract or long-term goals as well as qualitative targets and that it is challenging to monitor realization of such abstracxt targets, most important challenge for achieving the goals was limited financial resources, and finally, transformation of the State Planning Organization to Ministry of Development would have a negative effects on education planning.
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Education Planning , social planning , State Planning Organization , Ministry of Development
