Views of educators about "organic school" which is an alternative model in education

The primary purpose of this study is to compose an alternative school model that can be implemented in Turkish education system and to determine the ideas of educators about this model. This research was planned according to the qualitative research approach. At the process of composing Organic School Model firstly the four components of objectives, content, education process, and evaluation were constituted based upon literature review. After that data were collected from educators about Organic School Model. As the means of data collection semi-structured interview technique was used. Before stating their opinions about school model, participants were watched a package. The necessary information and visuals about school are available in that video. And then 9 questions in the interview form were asked to the participants. Interview was recorded with a tape recorder on participants' permission and then put down on paper for the content analysis. The work group of research consisted of 25 educator; that is, working in Elazığ, Muş and Van. These educators were chosen by means of snowball sampling. As a result of the research, an alternative school model peculiar to Turkey was developed and that model was approved by the educators. It is thought that this school will prepare students for real life, involve them in nature, provide them with learning through experience and improve their affective and psychomotor skills besides cognitive ones. In short, this school model was considered to be an important study contributing to education if could be adopted.