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- Title
Penetration of the scientific discourse into textbooks of religious instruction in the 1910s in the Ottoman Empire.
- Authors
Açıkgöz, Betül
- Abstract
The subject matter, method and purpose of religious instruction were debated in the years following the 1908 revolution. The educational journals brought the issue of religious education into question and developed a new point of view that categorized religious instruction in new pedagogical terms. The aim of the instruction, the methods and subject matters which were to be taught according to the biological and mental development of children were redefined in the period. The traces of the religion in primary schools deserve attention due to the religious goals in pedagogical understanding and the frequency of religious subjects in the curriculum in this period. Since the Ottoman Empire had gone through a long modernization process in political, social and economic aspects, it is worth questioning how the secular worldview and knowledge were incorporated into the terrain of Islamic subjects. For this reason, the focus of this paper is on the transformation of religious knowledge with respect to secular thinking. The textbooks for children provide a fruitful resource to view the change on the primary school age level. The way the secular discourse was espoused into the religious discourse is revealed as well as the way it produced and strengthened the modern Islamic worldview. The paper seeks the tensions and resistances to modernity which was perceived necessarily as a smooth transition from the old to the new.
- Subjects
OTTOMAN Empire; HISTORY of education; ISLAMIC education; TEXTBOOKS; HISTORY of religion &; science; MODERNIZATION (Social science); TWENTIETH century
- Publication
History of Education & Children's Literature, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 1, p537
- ISSN
1971-1093
- Publication type
Article