Journal of Environmental Biology

Evaluating the contributions of internship to landscape architecture education

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A.A. Karadağ¹, D. Demiroğlu², I. Sezen³* and T. Biriş?i⁴ ????? 

¹Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Forestry, D?zce University, D?zce, 81620, Turkey

²Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kilis 7 Aralık University, Kilis, 79000, Turkey

³Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Atat?rk University, Erzurum, 25240, Turkey

⁴Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, İzmir, 35040, Turkey

*Corresponding Author Email : isiksezen@atauni.edu.tr

Paper received: 23.04.2019 ?????? ???????????????????????????????????????Revised received: 27.10.2019 ???????????? ???????????????????????????Accepted: 18.12.2019

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of internship on landscape architecture education in Turkey.

Methodology: A questionnaire study on plantation and office internship was undertaken on 4th year students following the completion of? their internship training. In all 411 questionnaire forms were filled in a semi structured interview/questionnaire. The descriptive statistics in the SPSS 22 program was used for the evaluation.

Results: The findings revealed that internship is considered necessary in terms of education and working life of a landscape architect. The findings have shown that internship duration was insufficient, its scope/number was inadequate, the placement of place was problematic, and its program was unclear, the process was uncontrolled and the evaluation was ineffective.

Interpretation: In order to increase the contribution of the internship to the landscape architecture education, proposals such as increasing the internship period, development of internship scope/number, establishment of internship place database, supervising internship process, creation of internship training program and effective internship exams have been proposed.

Keywords: Bachelor's degree, Internship, Landscape architecture, Turkey

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