Education in Turkey. Bulletin, 1952, No. 10

Overview & Synopsis

The Office of Education has undertaken the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of countries in Europe and Central and South America. This series of studies was made a part of a program to promote understanding of education conditions in those areas and also to furnish the American college registrars with data on foreign institutions which they so urgently need. "Education in Turkey" is the first one undertaken by this office in the Near and Far East area. It is based on data gathered by the author in Turkey in June 1951 and supplemented since then through documentation. While data include necessary information needed by the school officials who deal with student transfers, the scope of the material presented is wide enough to be useful to scholars in the field of comparative education, particularly those who are interested in knowing the role that education plays in the life of the New Republic. The reader will find that the new Turkish leaders have made provision for education to be an important part of their program for national unity and development. These modern Turks have lost no time in bringing together whatever educational institutions they inherited from the old Ottoman era, organizing them into one system of schools, improving them as much as means would permit, and adapting them to the new social and political conditions. This bulletin is divided into seven chapters, as follows: (1) Turkey and Her People; (2) Development of Education and Its Administration; (3) Elementary Education; (4) Secondary Education and Teacher Training; (5) Higher Education; (6) Adult Education and Other Cultural Activities; and (7) Foreign and Minority Schools. A bibliography is provided. (Contains 32 tables and 3 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]