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The Evolution of Contemporary Turkish Educational Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Frank A. Stone
Frank A. Stone*
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School of Education, University of Connecticut
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Intellectuals in many societies have been deeply concerned about education ever since the days of Socrates and Plato. They have speculated about how their youth should be taught and have protested when they believed that the schools were lapsing from these aims. Spokesmen of this variety are produced by most sophisticated societies, and modern Turkey is no exception. In addition, there are the relatively few innovative philosophers who are capable of creating more systematic theoretical systems. Several theorists of this second type have made their impact on Turkish educational thought since the turn of the century.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1973 , pp. 145 - 161
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Copyright © 1973 by New York University 

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Notes

1 These lines from Mehmet Emin Yurdakul's poem “Ilim” are reproduced by Dizdaroǧlu, Hikmet, “Türk Sazi ve M. E. Yurdakul”, Uyaniş 8(66), Ekim 1969, p. 20.Google Scholar

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6 Gökalp, Ziya, Türkçülüǧün Esaslari. (Istanbul, 1969), p. 29ff. The present translation is by the author. Varying interpretations can be found in Robert Devereux, (trans.), Gökalp, Ziya, The Principles of Turkism. (Leiden, 1968), p. 22 and Berkes, Niyazi, (ed. and trans.), Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization (New York, 1959), p. 104.Google Scholar

7 Gökalp, Ziya, Millǐ Terbiye ve Maarif Meselesi. (Diyabakir, 1964), p. 124. This article, which first appeared in İslǎm Mecmuasi (Islamic Journal) was later incorporated into his Türklesmek, İslǎmlaşmak, Muasirlaşmak. The article is translated to English in Berkes, Türkish Nationalism, p. 233ff.Google Scholar

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15 See “The Peace Corps and Its Critics”, Current Turkish Thought 1(5), Istanbul, 1970), pp. 11–13.Google Scholar

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26 The reforms which are demanded by the socialist teachers are enunciated in Devrimci Eǧitim Şǔrasi (The Consultation on Revolutionary Education) (Ankara, 1969). Fakir Baykurt was one of the chief speakers at this meeting which was held in opposition to the regular national educational consultations which are sponsored by the Ministry of Education. See p. 15ff.Google Scholar