The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey

Sam Kaplan

Published by Stanford University Press 2006

The Pedagogical State

Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey

Sam Kaplan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503626089

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This book examines how interest groups in Turkey, including religious nationalists, neoliberal industrialists, and the military, promote and develop their particular worldviews through education and in school curricula. The aim is to explain how these competing groups define schoolchildren's educational experiences and how mass schooling creates the contexts in which children make sense of knowledge, power, and social change. The Pedagogical State offers an ethnographic case study that draws out the cultural and political processes by which education is reconfigured around the interests and understandings of different sectors in contemporary Turkish society. Using a wide array of sources, the author shows how a school system articulates a moral order at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class. Exploring how this articulation plays itself out in a Turkish village provides a nuanced approach to the interplay of religious heritage, secularity, economic globalization, militarism, and identity politics in society at large.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Pronunciation of Turkish Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. Educational Foundations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2.The State of Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Nation and Faith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4. Nation and Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
5. Nation and Army Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
6. Educational Postfoundations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280

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Published: June 2, 2006
ISBN: 9781503626089