Examining teachers' attitudes towards refugee students: The example of Sincan district

The main purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes of primary school teachers towards refugee students. 329 female and 71 male total of 400 teachers participated in the study. The questionnaire form used in this study consists of two parts. The first part of the questionnaire form includes questions prepared by the researcher to determine some demographic and professional characteristics that are thought to be effective in teachers' attitudes towards refugee students. In the second part of the questionnaire, the "Refugee Student Attitude Scale" developed by Sağlam and Kanbur (2017) was used to determine teachers' attitudes towards refugee students. In the analysis of the obtained data, the measurement level of the dependent variable and the levels of the independent variable were taken into account. The Mann Whitney-U test was used to compare two independent groups, and the Kruskall Wallis H test was used to compare more than two groups. Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS 21 package program, and the significance level was accepted as p<.05 in the evaluation of test statistics. As a result of this research, it was determined that teachers' attitudes towards refugee students were positive. It was determined that teachers' attitudes towards refugee students differed according to the presence of refugee students in the classroom and the class they were taught in. Keywords: Refugee student, Primary education, Teacher, Migration, Attitude