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

by Sam Kaplan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804754322
• ISBN13: 9780804754323
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"