Education, nationalism and gender in the young Turk Era, 1908-1918
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Date
2007Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the education of Ottoman girls during the
Second Constitutional Era, and to examine the “ideal female citizen” model, which was
described in the primary and secondary school textbooks. When the Second Constitution
was inaugurated, Young Turks targeted to inculcate the new generations with the
principles of the Constitutional Monarchy and destruct the symbols of the Hamidian
Regime, for the purpose of securing the continuity of the new system. After the Balkan
Wars, the success of the Balkan nations in the wars was explained with the nationalist
education they received in their schools, and Turkish nationalism became the dominant
educational doctrine, surpassing Ottomanism. The concepts of motherhood and
womanhood were re-defined in this nationalist atmosphere, and the female citizens were
given the duty of constructing the nationalist generations of the future.
Keywords
Citizen EducationFemale education
Balkan Wars
Second Constitutional Era
Nationalism
Young Turks
Ottoman women