Talk:Turkish textbook controversies

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Paywalled sources[edit]

"The second outcome [of the Centralization of Education and Knowledge Production] was the excessive centralization of knowledge production as the Education Ministry controlled the entire system from textbooks, teacher training, and course content to the questions asked at graduation examinations. All textbooks had to be reviewed and approved by the ministry; most textbooks were penned by retired officers and officials because they were able to successfully employ their political connections to have their books approved at the expense of other scholars who lacked such connections. As a consequence, rather than promoting critical thinking, the information contained in the textbooks ended up reproducing the official Turkish nationalist rhetoric."^[1]
"Such nationalist intent in the production of knowledge naturally colored and affected all subsequent research. The proofs of Turkish history textbooks were also continually reviewed with a similar intent, one memoir writer noted, “to correct the mistakes...of many of the history books published in our country... [that] had either consciously or unknowingly minimized the role of Turks in world history.”149 Public intellectuals and the populace participated in the construction of this nationalist presentation alongside scholars. The state’s inclusion of such nonacademic groups into discussions on how to write history textbooks further popularized and mythified Turkish history."—Gocek p. 293

(t · c) buidhe 10:16, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More detail on history of Turkish textbooks can be found in Dixon 2010b, which is freely accessible here. (t · c) buidhe 10:24, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Göçek, Fatma Müge (2015). Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009. Oxford University Press. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9.

Turkish ref points[edit]

Regime change in Turkey old symbols into new settings By Simten Coşar

A Comparative Approach to Official Discourse on Past Atrocities: The Possibilities and Limits of Models

Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan, by Jennifer M.

(Mis-/Under-)Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Locally-Produced ELT Materials ~ Ali Fuad Selvi, & Ceren Kocaman

Discrimination Based on Religion: A Complex Story in Turkey

Religious education in Turkey in the mirror of Europeanization ~ Elif Gençkal Eroler

How are human rights presented in Turkey’s textbooks? Development of an escapist model of human rights education (1950-2020)~ Abdulkerim Sen

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/pes/issue/57203/807754

Bookku (talk) 05:49, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Next?[edit]

Greetings @Buidhe and Skylax30:

Thanks for your contributions to this article Draft:Turkish textbook controversies. Though subject has further scope of expansion and fine tuning by including more academic sources.

I feel by now article touches most topics, though I have not been able to get alternative source for Avarogullari Ayten's research paper on lack of proper coverage of Ottoman time slavery in Turkish curricula.

From my side now it is okay if article goes in article main name space. Requesting your inputs in the same respect.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 05:32, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[Gocek-1] Göçek, Fatma Müge (2015). Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009. Oxford University Press. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9.

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