Internationalism and the New Turkey - American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case of the Near East that meant coming to terms with the radically nationalist modernization project of Kemal Ataturk's Turkish Republic. Using the case of Robert College, an American educational institution in Istanbul, which aimed to foster a future local elite of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious student body, the book sheds light on the negotiation between two conceptions of modernity, as represented by American internationalist ideals and the tenets of Kemalism the Westernizing, yet deeply ethnocentric national ideology of post-1923 Turkey. Based on recently declassified archival sources, this study addresses the educational intentions and strategies for adjustment of college faculty. It also offers a rare insight into the mindset of young students attempting to make sense of what internationalism and religious, ethnic and national identity meant in the Ottoman past and in the new republican Turkey. Focusing on Robert College and the forgotten case of its dean and social studies instructor, Dr. Edgar Jacob Fisher, it addresses the little-researched field of internationalism and peace education in interwar Turkey.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Erik Sjoeberg
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-100931-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-100931-2
Barcode:	9783031009310

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