The Village Institutes have been the most discussed topic in the field of education
of Republican history and even in all fields. Although it has been 77 years since their
establishment and over 63 years since they were closed, they never lost their up-to-dateness.
Many articles and researches were made on the institutes. The researches and articles
have been written with a focus on the general functioning of the Village Institutes, reasons for
their closure, their effects on the country, echoes, answers to the criticisms, before and after.
Many important people from inside and outside the institute including the National Education
Minister of the period Hasan Ali Yücel and the General Director of Primary Education
Ismail Tonguç wrote books about these subjects. An important part of the researches and
articles were criticisms and answers given to the criticisms. The criticisms were made from
very different points, from different aspects. Sometimes realistic and sometimes unrealistic
criticisms have been made in many areas, ranging from the large number of students being
employed to the peasant-urban class distinction, from the low salary of teachers to the
greatness of the principals’ authority, coeducation to the absence of religion lesson. There was
another dimension in the criticisms against the Institutes; an ideological dimension which
was advocated to exist by those opposing to the Institutes and which was generally denied by
the Institutions. The ideological dimension was criticized by some peoplebecause they saw
something, by some because of conflicts of interest and by others because of different reasons.
This study will focus on the ideological dimension, which was the focal point of
the criticisms against the Village Institutes and which was the main cause of their closure.
This research was designed as a research in the descriptive survey method. However, metaanalysis
has also been applied because it has been synthesized beforehand by examining
the studies made for a certain purpose and subject.The ideological structure of the village
institutes will be tried to be handled by acting from the administrators who have the role in
the establishment of the Village Institutes and those who teach in these schools and those who
are students in these schools.In addition to the sources mentioned in the survey, interviews
were held with the semi-structured interview form prepared with 7 teachers who attended
İvriz Village Institute. The data were analyzed by descriptive analysis method.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | March 30, 2018 |
Submission Date | May 2, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 17 Issue: 35 |