EXAMINING THE EDUCATION POLICIES IN POLITICAL PARTIES’ 24 JUNE 2018 ELECTION MANIFESTOS

Abstract

Political parties are among the building blocks of democracy. In countries withdemocratic regimes, general elections are held at certain periods. All political partiesin these elections demand to have a voice in ruling the country. Political partiesprepare election manifestos to win the elections. These manifestos include issues suchas economy, social policy and social services, foreign and domestic politics, treasury,law, justice, education, sports, culture, local development, employment, production andenvironment. Thus, political parties share the policies they will follow when they becomethe ruling party. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the educational policies thatpolitical parties put into their election manifestos, to examine the issues that are seen asproblematic by party managers and as well as the solutions that are offered towards theseissues. Document analysis, a qualitative design technique, was used in the study. Politicalparties focus on such issues as diversification of education, development of educationinfrastructure and improvement of educational quality in their manifestos. It is seen thatthe promises in the educational parts of election declarations are far from solving the growing problems of education. The need to be analyzed continuously with new projectswithin a consensus of the parties.