This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational interventions become the means for transforming the cultural circumstances of different populations. The contributors to this volume show how certain educational practices produce new cultural and professional knowledge; discuss the impacts of initially foreign educational ideas and institutions on established cultural institutions in very different societies; and explore the impacts of modernity and modern educational ideas on more traditional gendered and religious practices and communities. The book also provided striking examples of when these impacts were not benign. Increasingly powerful twentieth-century governments attempted to use education and schools to produce new, reformed citizens suitable for their newly created colonial, national, socialist, and fascist states. The expectation was that cultural and social transformation might be engineered, in major part, through schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational interventions become the means for transforming the cultural circumstances of different populations. The contributors to this volume show how certain educational practices produce new cultural and professional knowledge; discuss the impacts of initially foreign educational ideas and institutions on established cultural institutions in very different societies; and explore the impacts of modernity and modern educational ideas on more traditional gendered and religious practices and communities. The book also provided striking examples of when these impacts were not benign. Increasingly powerful twentieth-century governments attempted to use education and schools to produce new, reformed citizens suitable for their newly created colonial, national, socialist, and fascist states. The expectation was that cultural and social transformation might be engineered, in major part, through schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

This book aims to analyse the historical roots of the Turkish democratic system and the Turkish political elites in the Republican period (since 1920 up to 2000's). After a very brief information about contemporary Turkey, the political development of Turkey and an evaluation of Turkish Democracy will be discussed. Also, some information about Kemalist Turkish Revolution and Kemalism, which have shaped contemporary Turkish society will be given. Folloving the chapter of general conceptual and theoretical background, an extensive analysis and discussion about the social anatomy of Turkish political elites and Turkish political leaders will be provided. This section consists five chapters. The large majority of Turkish parliamentary elites were well educated, male, married, with a small family size and middle aged. Moreover the large majority of parliamentary elites were lawyers and civil bureaucrats. Turkish deputies have exhibited an elitist character as compared with Turkish society. Nevertheless, this elitist character has begun to change in recent years.

This book aims to analyse, the power structure of Turkish society and the Turkish power elite. In accordance with the pluralists views one could argue that, power has been diffused and fragmented among many people or elite groups which together participate in the decision-making process in contemporary Turkish society. Nevertheless, decisive and effective power (parallel with the main thesis of the elitist view) has been concentrated and centralised in the hands of the small number of elite groups which are called the Turkish Power Elite. The contemporary Turkish power elite is composed of economic, military, political and media elites. Decisive power has become centralised into the hands of these groups of people. They control the state and the elite recruitment process. Briefly, the Turkish power elites are the most powerful and wealthy people in society. They define the final shape of socio-political and economic decisions. They not only define the roles of millions of people, they also define the future of Turkish society.

It was aimed to analyse elites and power in contemporary Turkey in this book. The major goal was to construct a social portrait of Turkish elites, in other words to outline the social anatomy of the elites in Turkish society by using empirical data. The occupiers of the key positions in the major elite sectors were accepted as the elite. A total of five major elite groups were eventually examined. Extensive field researches comprise the major data sources of the study. Detailed interviews were conducted with members of Turkish elite groups. Additionally, documentary and historical data techniques, even secondary data were used. Education is the most important factor for elite recruitment in Turkish society. The media elites and political elites share similar social backgrounds. The members of these two elite groups have a relatively higher social class background than the Turkish labour union elites. The Turkish elites present a higher level consensually unified national elite character. However as a result of its nature, this consensus is not very sharp and exact on some issues. Following the demo-elite perspective this consensus can be called a "relative elite consensus."

Floods can play great havoc including loss of life, damage to property and agricultural crops, health hazards and disruption of human. The information such as peak flow and its volume are required in the design phase of irrigation, hydro-power and flood control projects. Hydrological models are widely used for the computation of flows in response of precipitation in the catchment and help to understand the characteristics behavior of a stream over a long period of time. The inputs for such models include long term records of stream flow, meteorological data and catchment characteristics. This book includes hydrological analysis of the Kanshi River catchment in Pakistan using TOPMODEL. The model predicts catchment water discharge and spatial soil water saturation pattern based on precipitation and evapo-transpiration time series and topographic information. The results of this study may be helpful to hydrologists, engineers and policy makers in water resources field.