Monuments to the Republic: School as a Nationalising Discourse in Turkey

Autor/in	Bilgi, Sabiha
Titel	Monuments to the Republic: School as a Nationalising Discourse in Turkey
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 50 (2014) 3, S.356-370 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2013.833272
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Nationalism; Social Change; Social Development; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Educational History; Politics of Education; Political Influences; Social History; National Curriculum; Educational Legislation; School Law; School Role; Intellectual History; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nationalismus; Sozialer Wandel; Soziale Entwicklung; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational policy; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Sozialgeschichte; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Geistesgeschichte; Türkei
Abstract	This article examines the cultural construction of the school in Turkey in relation to the construction of Turkish nation-ness. By looking at how the modern school was fit together with a network of interrelated discourses available in early twentieth-century Turkey, the article investigates the ways in which the school became an object of thought in support of narrating and imagining Turkish nation-ness. In the article, I argue that the school was pivotal in the imagination and institution of Turkey not only literally but also symbolically. Juxtaposed with a radically contrasting image of the traditional educational establishment of the Ottoman dynastic past called "mahalle mektebi," the school was appropriated by the Republican elite as a statement of modernity, national character and a total break from the Ottoman past. Giving a visual expression to the new regime's aspirations for the society, the school, with its very architecture, layout and disciplinary and hierarchical organisation, functioned as a clear symbol of enlightenment, civility, order and progress. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10