Distance education in corona days or remembering Ivan Illich

Abstract

This study aims to enable the pre-service teachers studying at an education faculty to evaluate the education they received during the pandemic within the scope of Illich's views and to question what Illich asserts about the deschooling society. The study group consists of pre-service teachers studying in the first grade of Balıkesir University Necatibey Education Faculty and taking the Educational Sociology course in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. One of the questions in the final exam of the Educational Sociology course was used as the data collection tool. This qualitative study was conducted on the opinions of 54 pre-service teachers and the obtained data were analyzed using the content analysistechnique. The majority of the pre-service teachers participating in the study advocate schooling societies instead of deschooling societies. The preservice teachers favoring the presence of schools consider schools not only as places of learning but also as structures that create value, while the pre-service teachers who support Ivan Illich's views evaluate schools in terms of pressure.