Examination of the Developments in the Field of Education and Training in Our Country Before and After the Republican Era Cover Image

Cumhuriyet Devri Öncesinde ve Sonrasında Eğitim ve Öğretim Alanında Ülkemizde Yaşanan Gelişimlerin İncelenmesi
Examination of the Developments in the Field of Education and Training in Our Country Before and After the Republican Era

Author(s): İlyas EKŞİ, Fayik ELHAKAN, Dilek TUNÇ, Gökhan BAYAR
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, History of Education, State/Government and Education, The Ottoman Empire, Pedagogy
Published by: SD Yayınevi
Keywords: The Tanzimat Era; the Republican Era; Education and Training;

Summary/Abstract: A special importance has been attributed to education in Turks since the earliest times. Since the earliest times, different educational methods have been tried using various methods and techniques. Under the reasons why such importance is given to education in Turks, it comes from the perception of education both as an individual and as a duty to one's own state in everyday life. According to the Turkish educational tradition, education starts in the family, continues at school and develops on the axis of the environment owned. Since the first Turks preferred a nomadic lifestyle in the period up to the Uighurs, trainings were generally carried out on horses, obas, tents. With the transition of the Uyghurs to a settled life, educational institutions were established in an architectural sense, a national alphabet was developed like the Göktürks, and literacy mobilization was carried out. Our people have committed their feelings and thoughts to obelisks. In the process after the Uyghurs, the madrasa method was adopted. This method was continued by the Ottoman State with its institutions and organizations in all aspects until the Tanzimat period, and it enabled the bureaucrats and statesmen of the Republic of Turkey, which will be established in the future, to grow up. It should be noted that with the Tanzimat era, schools and institutions providing a new style of education and training were opened in the country. In the educational model that Turkey inherited from the Ottoman Empire, there was a system that raised different individuals and applied different educational methods. The new education system, on the other hand, wanted to build an educational model of a national character. In order for the innovations to be made to have an impact on the public, all existing education systems had to be united under one roof. For this purpose, education and training activities were combined. One of the sharpest attempts made to bring the country to the level of contemporary states was made with the establishment of a new alphabet and the adoption of international numerals. After that, there are many developments and progress activities made in the field of education and training with a revolutionary character. The revolution of letters has definitely and irrevocably determined where the direction of the country will be. With the adoption of Latin letters instead of Arabic letters, which Turkish society has been using for a thousand years in general, new and different literacy-teaching schools and courses such as public houses, public schools and national schools have been opened, and a completely integrated and oriented education model has been developed for the West.

  • Issue Year: 7/2023
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 68-83
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish