The ideology and textbooks : "Turkish Republic history of renovation and Ataturkism" textbooks (1980-1990)
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Helvacıoğlu, BanuDate
1998Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
This study aims to analyze the specific understanding of history in the 1980s
in Turkey. It is argued that this particular historical understanding is ideologically
shaped by Kemalism and Turkish-Islamic Synthesis discourse. These two
contradictory and complementary views exist together in the "Turkish Republic
History of Renovation and Ataturkism" textbooks, which are used as a tool to
convey the regime's ideological stance to the high-school students. In this context,
these textbooks are examined in terms of their contents with regard to an identity
formation characterized by nationalist, statist, religious but secular values.