Exploring teachers' attitudes toward refugee students in high schools in Türkiye

This study aims to investigate teachers' attitudes toward refugee students studying in high schools in Türkiye as well as their perspectives about refugee students with regard to their gender, having a child, having a refugee student in their class, their education level, professional seniority and in-service training. As a quantitative research method, a relational model was used in the study. The study group of the research consisted of 103 high school teachers. The present study revealed that the attitudes of teachers toward refugee students in high schools were positive. The study showed that there was no statistically significant difference between teachers in terms of their gender, level of education, professional seniority and the variable of in-service training. In the direction of the findings, recommendations for more effective educational policies for the training of refugee students in Türkiye in a multicultural school environment were made.