AN EXAMPLE TEXTBOOK FOR MORAL EDUCATION IN II. CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD: İBTİDAİLERE MALUMAT-I AHLAKİYE VE MEDENİYE
II. MEŞRUTİYET DÖNEMİ AHLAK EĞİTİMİNE ÖRNEK BİR DERS KİTABI: İBTİDAİLERE MALUMAT-I AHLAKİYYE VE MEDENİYYE

Author : Seval YİNİLMEZ AKAGÜNDÜZ
Number of pages : 240-257

Abstract

The quality and quantity of the studies which have been conducted on moral education in Turkey have increased day by day. One of the focus areas that is emerged from this increase is to evaluate the transformations in our education history as focusing on the background of moral education through a philosophical point of view. It is obvious that II. Constitutional Period has a unique position. Constitutionalism had been fastened when many important regulations of our education history were prepared during 1908-1918, and especially between 1913 and 1918, when Party of Union and Progress had political dominance. Primary school was influenced by this transformation and how children could be educated to be ethical and civilized individuals was thought while preparing the related laws, curriculums and textbooks. The textbook, which was written by Ali Riza Bey in the name of “İbtidailere Malumat-ı Ahlakiyye ve Medeniyye (Moral and Civilization Knowledge for Primary School), 1331 (1915), portraits a real example that we can benefit from philosophy of ethics accumulation about moral education perspectives in primary school curriculums, which were dated 1913 and 1914. Hence, following the period of creating ethical citizens from textbooks and the related regulations will be a key point on understanding the constructions that have been made to create today’s ethical individuals.

Keywords

II. Constitutional Period, Moral Education, Good Citizen, Textbook, Moral-Ethic

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