| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe, 2523-7993 |
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Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe. 2523-7993
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Internationalism and the New Turkey -- 2. Background: Robert College and Late Ottoman Society -- 3. Years of Transition: Adapting to the Republican Order, 1923-1927 -- 4. "A moderate and true nationalism" : The Philosophy and Practice of Internationalism and Peace Education at Robert College, c.1927-1933 -- 5. Wonderful Changes, Broken Unity: Modernity, Ottoman Past and National Belonging in the Essays of Robert College Students -- 6. Internationalism Defeated: The Downfall of Edgar Fisher -- Chapter 7. Epilogue and Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 Ataturks 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. Erik Sjoberg is Associate Professor of History at Sodertorn University, Sweden |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey) -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey) fast |
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International education -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
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Peace -- Study and teaching -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
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Internationalism -- History -- 20th century
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International education
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Internationalism
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Peace -- Study and teaching
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Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138835
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031009327 |
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3031009320 |
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