Comparison of the strategic plans of the ministry of national education in Turkey and China

Abstract

The study analysed Turkey and China’s Ministry of National Education’s strategic plans and examined the similar and different sides of the two plans. Turkey’s strategic plan contains 2019-2023; China’s contains 2016-2020 years. Both two plans are for 5 years. Turkey’s plan is third, but China’s is thirteenth. The two plans have vision. The vision of Turkish education plan is individual-communal oriented, that is, an education system that raises healthy, happy and values focus individuals and communals ready for life. Chinese vision focuses on the country as a whole, which makes progress in Chinese overall education power and international influence, promotes China into a powerful country with abundant human resource and lay a solid foundation to achieve the long-term goal of Chinese education modernization. The two countries share many common ground on how to build education systems for the future, which will be the reliable basis for the understanding and coorperating of each other. In this research there are several suggestions for researchers. Turkish and Chinese strategic planning is compared. The researchers can compare another countries’ planning in next research or various compares can be made. A different research can be conducted to interview or survey with teachers and/or administrators about strategic planning process and applications.

Keywords

• education system
• turkish ministry of national education
• chinese ministry of education
• planning
• strategic planning