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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Sam, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Pronunciation of Turkish

Preface

1. Educational Foundations

2.The State of Education

3. Nation and Faith

4. Nation and Market

5. Nation and Army

6. Educational Postfoundations

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2608-3

OCLC:

1294425306