Yaşar Kondakçı
Biographic Data
| ID | 5848356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaşar Kondakçı |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaşar |
| FAMILY NAME | Kondakçı |
| SIGNATURE | KONDAKÇI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle East Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2244-7076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stepwise Migration Intentions of International Students
The dominant analyses of trends and flows in International Student Mobility (ISM) overlook different hierarchies of destinations and the pathways students take to reach these locations. The tendency to conceptualize ISM as a linear involvement of the global elites masks the mobility patterns and trajectories of students with mobility capital shortage. Theorizing on the stepwise migration, this explanatory mixed-methods study investigates the onwa…
Navigating forcibly displaced learners’ pathways to higher education and beyond
Although there is growing literature on access to and survival in higher education among forcibly displaced migrants, cases of mass displacement across different geographies highlight the need for deeper exploration to understand the role of higher education in mitigating the impact of displacement. The Ukrainian influx to European countries in the aftermath of the country’s full-scale invasion exhibits an entirely different migration structure, …
International research collaborations
Decades of research form an extensive body of knowledge on International Collaboration in Research (IRC). However, experiential perspectives of the operative core (the academics) in research collaboration, remained relatively uninvestigated. Besides, explorations on how academics in peripheral countries accomplish IRC are still very limited. Finally, the representation of social sciences is also limited compared to natural sciences and engineerin…
Im/mobility in a disruptive time
The share of internationally mobile students has risen exponentially for the last two decades until the disruptive COVID-19 period, leading to a more diverse and multipolar network structure. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused restrictions across the globe. This systematic review aims to explore how COVID-19 has affected the magnitude, flows, and direction of internationally mobile students. A total of 57 studies, retrieved from several da…
International higher education as a soft power tool of Turkish foreign policy
Eurasia emerged as a potential sphere of political, economic and cultural influence for Türkiye in the aftermath of the Soviet disintegration, which urged the country to redesign its foreign policy around new discourses and practices. In addition to developing economic, political and cultural ties, Türkiye instrumentalised its higher education as a soft power tool with a scholarship programme named the Great Student Project (GSP). This article ai…
Conflicting Perspectives on the Internationalization of Higher Education
The internationalization of higher education (IHE) has become a key policy issue for governments, a research field for scholars, a strategic priority for universities, and a career orientation for administrative staff. Yet, with recent social, political, and economic trends heavily embellished by globalization and neoliberalism, the term IHE has resulted in conflicting perspectives. Although there are numerous analyses on IHE, these analyses seld…
Developing a comprehensive leadership development model in higher education context
Higher education (HE) in the changing context requires leadership training and development as a vital element for university governance and innovation. While there are several theoretical frameworks on leadership development, most of them are outcome evaluation‐oriented. Consequently, there is a lack of a leadership development model which emphasises both design process and expected outcomes. In addition to this, HE leadership development has bee…
Higher Education for forcibly displaced migrants in Turkey
Higher education (HE) provides a unique opportunity to accomplish social and economic integration and mitigate the impact of displacement for forcibly displaced migrants (FDMs) in the long run. Against this backdrop, the purpose of the study is to explore the HE experiences of Syrian FDMs in Turkey. Utilizing snowball sampling, 24 FDMs in Turkey were interviewed. The results suggested that for the FDMs, HE was a mechanism for reconstructing their…
Technology Development Zones as a Form of University–Industry Relations
The role of leadership in developing a climate of technology integration in public schools
The Internationalisation of Higher Education and Identity Construction in Azerbaijan
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of study abroad on identity development among Azerbaijani academics. The results suggest that study abroad has had a transformative impact on the new generation of academic professionals, who have become local agents, practitioners, and transmitters of values and professional conduct at home. This study shows that the location of study abroad—Turkey or a Western country—is significant in the …
Elements of Open Education
This paper explores elements of open education within the context of higher education. After an introduction to the origins of open education and its theoretical foundations, the topics of open and distance learning, international education issues in open education, open educational practices and scholarship, open educational resources, MOOCs, prior learning accreditation and recognition, and learner characteristics are considered, following the …
Academic Mobbing in Relation to Leadership Practices
Constant pressures emanating from internal and external environments of the academy have resulted in many changes, one of which is the workplace mobbing, an old issue for the broader field of organization science but a relatively new phenomenon in the academic context. This study investigated the relationship between workplace mobbing and academic leadership and the results indicated that the more positive leadership there is in an institution, t…
Higher Education for Forcibly Displaced Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Higher Education Policy for Displaced People
The imposition of government education policy initiatives and school enactment
Rapid economic, social, political and technological changes in the external environments of\neducation systems put constant pressure on the internal processes and practices of educational\nsystems. Over the last four decades educational systems have become more and more vulnerable to economic, political and social developments. Recent global developments such as the\ncrises in the Arab world and their impact on the refugee crisis; the Brexit cris…
Large-scale change and survival of school principals in Turkey
Turkey possess one of the most vibrant educational systems in the World. This study specifically aims at revealing Turkish school principals’ perceptions about the large-scale changes imposed by the Ministry of Education and the strategies they follow for coping with these changes. The study was designed as a generic qualitative study. Twenty principals from different schools at different levels were identified through snowball sampling and semi-…
Social network analysis of international student mobility
Travelling policies and contextual considerations
Educational policy borrowing has become rather common in our globalised world. However, the literature lacks contextual criteria that may be employed by researchers and policy makers to assess the correspondence of a particular policy to the local context of a borrowing system. Based on a secondary analysis of documents and research reports, this paper describes the process of policy borrowing in the Israeli and Turkish educational systems. Discr…
Differentiated Function of School in Socio-Culturally Disadvantaged Context
Student mobility reviewed
Psychological distress among international students in Turkey
Higher Education for Forcibly Displaced Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Travelling policies and contextual considerations
Educational policy borrowing has become rather common in our globalised world. However, the literature lacks contextual criteria that may be employed by researchers and policy makers to assess the correspondence of a particular policy to the local context of a borrowing system. Based on a secondary analysis of documents and research reports, this paper describes the process of policy borrowing in the Israeli and Turkish educational systems. Discr…
Psychological distress among international students in Turkey
The Internationalisation of Higher Education and Identity Construction in Azerbaijan
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of study abroad on identity development among Azerbaijani academics. The results suggest that study abroad has had a transformative impact on the new generation of academic professionals, who have become local agents, practitioners, and transmitters of values and professional conduct at home. This study shows that the location of study abroad—Turkey or a Western country—is significant in the …
The imposition of government education policy initiatives and school enactment
Rapid economic, social, political and technological changes in the external environments of\neducation systems put constant pressure on the internal processes and practices of educational\nsystems. Over the last four decades educational systems have become more and more vulnerable to economic, political and social developments. Recent global developments such as the\ncrises in the Arab world and their impact on the refugee crisis; the Brexit cris…
Technology Development Zones as a Form of University–Industry Relations
The role of leadership in developing a climate of technology integration in public schools
Higher Education Policy for Displaced People
Differentiated Function of School in Socio-Culturally Disadvantaged Context
Student mobility reviewed
Psychological distress among international students in Turkey
Travelling policies and contextual considerations
Educational policy borrowing has become rather common in our globalised world. However, the literature lacks contextual criteria that may be employed by researchers and policy makers to assess the correspondence of a particular policy to the local context of a borrowing system. Based on a secondary analysis of documents and research reports, this paper describes the process of policy borrowing in the Israeli and Turkish educational systems. Discr…
Differentiated Function of School in Socio-Culturally Disadvantaged Context
Social network analysis of international student mobility
The imposition of government education policy initiatives and school enactment
Rapid economic, social, political and technological changes in the external environments of\neducation systems put constant pressure on the internal processes and practices of educational\nsystems. Over the last four decades educational systems have become more and more vulnerable to economic, political and social developments. Recent global developments such as the\ncrises in the Arab world and their impact on the refugee crisis; the Brexit cris…
Large-scale change and survival of school principals in Turkey
Turkey possess one of the most vibrant educational systems in the World. This study specifically aims at revealing Turkish school principals’ perceptions about the large-scale changes imposed by the Ministry of Education and the strategies they follow for coping with these changes. The study was designed as a generic qualitative study. Twenty principals from different schools at different levels were identified through snowball sampling and semi-…
Elements of Open Education
This paper explores elements of open education within the context of higher education. After an introduction to the origins of open education and its theoretical foundations, the topics of open and distance learning, international education issues in open education, open educational practices and scholarship, open educational resources, MOOCs, prior learning accreditation and recognition, and learner characteristics are considered, following the …
Academic Mobbing in Relation to Leadership Practices
Constant pressures emanating from internal and external environments of the academy have resulted in many changes, one of which is the workplace mobbing, an old issue for the broader field of organization science but a relatively new phenomenon in the academic context. This study investigated the relationship between workplace mobbing and academic leadership and the results indicated that the more positive leadership there is in an institution, t…
Higher Education for Forcibly Displaced Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Higher Education Policy for Displaced People
The Internationalisation of Higher Education and Identity Construction in Azerbaijan
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of study abroad on identity development among Azerbaijani academics. The results suggest that study abroad has had a transformative impact on the new generation of academic professionals, who have become local agents, practitioners, and transmitters of values and professional conduct at home. This study shows that the location of study abroad—Turkey or a Western country—is significant in the …
Conflicting Perspectives on the Internationalization of Higher Education
The internationalization of higher education (IHE) has become a key policy issue for governments, a research field for scholars, a strategic priority for universities, and a career orientation for administrative staff. Yet, with recent social, political, and economic trends heavily embellished by globalization and neoliberalism, the term IHE has resulted in conflicting perspectives. Although there are numerous analyses on IHE, these analyses seld…
Developing a comprehensive leadership development model in higher education context
Higher education (HE) in the changing context requires leadership training and development as a vital element for university governance and innovation. While there are several theoretical frameworks on leadership development, most of them are outcome evaluation‐oriented. Consequently, there is a lack of a leadership development model which emphasises both design process and expected outcomes. In addition to this, HE leadership development has bee…
Higher Education for forcibly displaced migrants in Turkey
Higher education (HE) provides a unique opportunity to accomplish social and economic integration and mitigate the impact of displacement for forcibly displaced migrants (FDMs) in the long run. Against this backdrop, the purpose of the study is to explore the HE experiences of Syrian FDMs in Turkey. Utilizing snowball sampling, 24 FDMs in Turkey were interviewed. The results suggested that for the FDMs, HE was a mechanism for reconstructing their…
Technology Development Zones as a Form of University–Industry Relations
The role of leadership in developing a climate of technology integration in public schools
International research collaborations
Decades of research form an extensive body of knowledge on International Collaboration in Research (IRC). However, experiential perspectives of the operative core (the academics) in research collaboration, remained relatively uninvestigated. Besides, explorations on how academics in peripheral countries accomplish IRC are still very limited. Finally, the representation of social sciences is also limited compared to natural sciences and engineerin…
Im/mobility in a disruptive time
The share of internationally mobile students has risen exponentially for the last two decades until the disruptive COVID-19 period, leading to a more diverse and multipolar network structure. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused restrictions across the globe. This systematic review aims to explore how COVID-19 has affected the magnitude, flows, and direction of internationally mobile students. A total of 57 studies, retrieved from several da…
International higher education as a soft power tool of Turkish foreign policy
Eurasia emerged as a potential sphere of political, economic and cultural influence for Türkiye in the aftermath of the Soviet disintegration, which urged the country to redesign its foreign policy around new discourses and practices. In addition to developing economic, political and cultural ties, Türkiye instrumentalised its higher education as a soft power tool with a scholarship programme named the Great Student Project (GSP). This article ai…
Stepwise Migration Intentions of International Students
The dominant analyses of trends and flows in International Student Mobility (ISM) overlook different hierarchies of destinations and the pathways students take to reach these locations. The tendency to conceptualize ISM as a linear involvement of the global elites masks the mobility patterns and trajectories of students with mobility capital shortage. Theorizing on the stepwise migration, this explanatory mixed-methods study investigates the onwa…
Navigating forcibly displaced learners’ pathways to higher education and beyond
Although there is growing literature on access to and survival in higher education among forcibly displaced migrants, cases of mass displacement across different geographies highlight the need for deeper exploration to understand the role of higher education in mitigating the impact of displacement. The Ukrainian influx to European countries in the aftermath of the country’s full-scale invasion exhibits an entirely different migration structure, …
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (12 works) · Higher education (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social science (7 works)