Ecem Karlıdağ-Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 149704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ecem Karlıdağ-Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ecem |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlıdağ-Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | KARLIDAĞ-DENNIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1147-4055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching in displacement: Refugee teachers’ agency and the reworking of social and professional practices
“I’d lost trust and having to tell everyone the same story again and again and again…”: Bottlenecks and barriers to the application of therapeutic approaches within care services’ ecological systems
Bridging Generations: Leveraging Arts-Based Methods and Evaluation to Foster Intergenerational Dialogue
This article investigates how arts-based methods not only provide spaces for the enhancement of the skills that can enable children and youth to contribute to intergenerational dialogue but how the arts reinforce and sustain youth voices in the community. It draws on a combined approach rooting Lundy's conceptualization of the United Nations Convention and the Rights of the Child with Sen's Capabilities Approach. The research collected data throu…
Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches
As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia. Social Cognitive Theory highlights the critical importance of self‐efficacy in enhancing employability and educational attainment, and links it to graduate success. This research introduces a new employa…
Towards research with children: Assessing participatory methods in England and Wales
This paper critically examines the use of the photostories method adapted from Photovoice in research with children, exploring its effectiveness in enabling decision-making and influencing change while addressing potential challenges. Specifically, it investigates the extent to which the photostories method enables children to make decisions and influence change while mitigating potential challenges, and how this contributes to a broader understa…
Children’s world-making practices as peacebuilders in the community
Enhancing agency and empowering young people: The transformative impact of social and emotional learning programmes
Developing programmes that focus on supporting young people to develop SEL, make informed choices about their futures, re-engage with their education and improve their grades is of critical importance. • Programmes should be run by well-qualified and experienced staff (i.e., ex-teachers or youth workers), and follow guidance on ‘what works’. • Delivering SEL-focused programmes through a mixture of classroom based and external sessions, develops c…
‘ If I wasn’t a project manager, I’d look at it differently ’: The impact of formality and accountability on entrepreneurial action within educational outreach programmes
This presented study explores the ongoing Uni Connect Programme run by the UK government to widen participation among underrepresented young people. The research focused on one specific local authority that delivers Uni Connect activities, gathering data from eight in-depth interviews (project manager N = 2, activity coordinators N = 6) and the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT). Analysis of the data was used to critically examine the practic…
Building Capabilities of Youth Through Participatory Oral History Project: The South Hebron Hills, a Palestinian Case Study
Drawing from the capabilities approach (Sen Citation1999; Nussbaum Citation2000) and reflecting on Fricker’s (Citation2007) epistemic (in)justice, this paper seeks to explain how a participatory oral history project enabled youth researchers in Palestine to increase their capabilities to participate in political and social life in their communities by fostering their attachment to the land and by increasing understanding of their cultural heritag…
Hegemony and the neoconservative politics of early education policymaking
This research explores the dynamics, actors, and political authority through which early education policymaking is formulated and negotiated using a Gramscian perspective. Drawing on interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, and parents, we argue that the educational landscape in Turkey is driven by a prevailing neoconservative and hegemonic agenda and is mediated by a domestic history and politics that produce a monolithic understanding. We fi…
Higher Education, Youth and Migration in Contexts of Disadvantage: Understanding Aspirations and Capabilities
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Global Trends Report (UNHRC: New York, 2018, p. 2) found that 70.8 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide because of "persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations".The world has observed substantial growth in the global population of forcibly displaced people over the past ten years.If we look at the South African case, the International Organisation of Migration (IO…
Is education for all? The experiences of ethnic minority students and teachers in North-western Vietnam engaging with social entrepreneurship
Educational policy-making and hegemony: Monolithic voices from civil society
This article discusses the changes in basic education in Turkey, with a particular focus on religious education and its ramifications for the education system. The latest education reform, 4 + 4 + 4 (or 4+), the largest education reform in recent Turkish history, has brought radical changes to the school system regarding religious education. For this research, journalists and teacher unionists were interviewed to investigate civil society’s persp…
Capabilities-based gender equality analysis of educational policy-making and reform in Turkey
This research aims to scrutinise the latest education reform and education policies in Turkey from a capabilities-based gender equality perspective. The data draws on interviews with stakeholders and practitioners to understand how gender equality is conceptualised in policy-making and to what extent reforms have fostered gender equality in girls’ education. From a policy-making perspective, the data shows that reform has been successful in terms…
Capabilities-based gender equality analysis of educational policy-making and reform in Turkey
This research aims to scrutinise the latest education reform and education policies in Turkey from a capabilities-based gender equality perspective. The data draws on interviews with stakeholders and practitioners to understand how gender equality is conceptualised in policy-making and to what extent reforms have fostered gender equality in girls’ education. From a policy-making perspective, the data shows that reform has been successful in terms…
Is education for all? The experiences of ethnic minority students and teachers in North-western Vietnam engaging with social entrepreneurship
Hegemony and the neoconservative politics of early education policymaking
This research explores the dynamics, actors, and political authority through which early education policymaking is formulated and negotiated using a Gramscian perspective. Drawing on interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, and parents, we argue that the educational landscape in Turkey is driven by a prevailing neoconservative and hegemonic agenda and is mediated by a domestic history and politics that produce a monolithic understanding. We fi…
Capabilities-based gender equality analysis of educational policy-making and reform in Turkey
This research aims to scrutinise the latest education reform and education policies in Turkey from a capabilities-based gender equality perspective. The data draws on interviews with stakeholders and practitioners to understand how gender equality is conceptualised in policy-making and to what extent reforms have fostered gender equality in girls’ education. From a policy-making perspective, the data shows that reform has been successful in terms…
Educational policy-making and hegemony: Monolithic voices from civil society
This article discusses the changes in basic education in Turkey, with a particular focus on religious education and its ramifications for the education system. The latest education reform, 4 + 4 + 4 (or 4+), the largest education reform in recent Turkish history, has brought radical changes to the school system regarding religious education. For this research, journalists and teacher unionists were interviewed to investigate civil society’s persp…
Higher Education, Youth and Migration in Contexts of Disadvantage: Understanding Aspirations and Capabilities
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Global Trends Report (UNHRC: New York, 2018, p. 2) found that 70.8 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide because of "persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations".The world has observed substantial growth in the global population of forcibly displaced people over the past ten years.If we look at the South African case, the International Organisation of Migration (IO…
Is education for all? The experiences of ethnic minority students and teachers in North-western Vietnam engaging with social entrepreneurship
Hegemony and the neoconservative politics of early education policymaking
This research explores the dynamics, actors, and political authority through which early education policymaking is formulated and negotiated using a Gramscian perspective. Drawing on interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, and parents, we argue that the educational landscape in Turkey is driven by a prevailing neoconservative and hegemonic agenda and is mediated by a domestic history and politics that produce a monolithic understanding. We fi…
‘ If I wasn’t a project manager, I’d look at it differently ’: The impact of formality and accountability on entrepreneurial action within educational outreach programmes
This presented study explores the ongoing Uni Connect Programme run by the UK government to widen participation among underrepresented young people. The research focused on one specific local authority that delivers Uni Connect activities, gathering data from eight in-depth interviews (project manager N = 2, activity coordinators N = 6) and the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT). Analysis of the data was used to critically examine the practic…
Building Capabilities of Youth Through Participatory Oral History Project: The South Hebron Hills, a Palestinian Case Study
Drawing from the capabilities approach (Sen Citation1999; Nussbaum Citation2000) and reflecting on Fricker’s (Citation2007) epistemic (in)justice, this paper seeks to explain how a participatory oral history project enabled youth researchers in Palestine to increase their capabilities to participate in political and social life in their communities by fostering their attachment to the land and by increasing understanding of their cultural heritag…
Children’s world-making practices as peacebuilders in the community
Enhancing agency and empowering young people: The transformative impact of social and emotional learning programmes
Developing programmes that focus on supporting young people to develop SEL, make informed choices about their futures, re-engage with their education and improve their grades is of critical importance. • Programmes should be run by well-qualified and experienced staff (i.e., ex-teachers or youth workers), and follow guidance on ‘what works’. • Delivering SEL-focused programmes through a mixture of classroom based and external sessions, develops c…
“I’d lost trust and having to tell everyone the same story again and again and again…”: Bottlenecks and barriers to the application of therapeutic approaches within care services’ ecological systems
Bridging Generations: Leveraging Arts-Based Methods and Evaluation to Foster Intergenerational Dialogue
This article investigates how arts-based methods not only provide spaces for the enhancement of the skills that can enable children and youth to contribute to intergenerational dialogue but how the arts reinforce and sustain youth voices in the community. It draws on a combined approach rooting Lundy's conceptualization of the United Nations Convention and the Rights of the Child with Sen's Capabilities Approach. The research collected data throu…
Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches
As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia. Social Cognitive Theory highlights the critical importance of self‐efficacy in enhancing employability and educational attainment, and links it to graduate success. This research introduces a new employa…
Towards research with children: Assessing participatory methods in England and Wales
This paper critically examines the use of the photostories method adapted from Photovoice in research with children, exploring its effectiveness in enabling decision-making and influencing change while addressing potential challenges. Specifically, it investigates the extent to which the photostories method enables children to make decisions and influence change while mitigating potential challenges, and how this contributes to a broader understa…
Teaching in displacement: Refugee teachers’ agency and the reworking of social and professional practices
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)