Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g
American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g
Reihe: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
ISBN: 978-3-031-00934-1
Verlag: Springer
This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case of the Near East that meant coming to terms with the radically nationalist modernization project of Kemal Atatürk’s Turkish Republic. Using the case of Robert College, an American educational institution in Istanbul, which aimed to foster a future local elite of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious student body, the book sheds light on the negotiation between two conceptions of modernity, as represented by American internationalist ideals and the tenets of Kemalism the Westernizing, yet deeply ethnocentric national ideology of post-1923 Turkey. Based on recently declassified archival sources, this study addresses the educational intentions and strategies for adjustment of college faculty. It also offers a rare insight into the mindset of young students attempting to make sense of what internationalism and religious, ethnic and national identity meant in the Ottoman past and in the new republican Turkey. Focusing on Robert College and the forgotten case of its dean and social studies instructor, Dr. Edgar Jacob Fisher, it addresses the little-researched field of internationalism and peace education in interwar Turkey.
Zielgruppe
Research
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction: Internationalism and the New Turkey.- 2. Background: Robert College and Late Ottoman Society.- 3. Years of Transition: Adapting to the Republican Order, 1923-1927.- 4. “A moderate and true nationalism”: The Philosophy and Practice of Internationalism and Peace Education at Robert College, c.1927-1933.- 5. Wonderful Changes, Broken Unity: Modernity, Ottoman Past and National Belonging in the Essays of Robert College Students.- 6. Internationalism Defeated: The Downfall of Edgar Fisher.- Chapter 7. Epilogue and Conclusion.
