State Ideology and Education in Turkey, 1980–2015

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Table of contents
Introduction
	1. Theoretical, Methodological and Historical Consideration
	2.Current State of Research
PART I
	1. Education and National State Building in Turkey
		1. Ottoman Modernization Reforms and Education
		2. Influence of the Young Turks in Modernized Ottoman Education
		3. Ziya Gokalp, Turkish Nationalism, Kemalism and Education
	2. The Secular State and the National Education
		1. Ideological Formation of Kemalism and the Creation of a Secular Society
		2. Kemalism in National Educational Policies
		3. Kemalist Ideology as Mirrored in Education: The ‘Law on the Unification of Instruction’ (Tevhid – i Tedrisat Kanunu)
		4. Educational Policies and Religious Courses in the Early Republican Curricula: 1920–1950
		5. The Village Institutes
		6. The Ankara University Divinity Faculty
	3. Post World War Turkey and Education Realities
		1. Education and Politics in a Changing Turkey
		2. Religious Education Reforms
		3. Imam – Hatip Schools
		4. Islam and Education
PART II
	4. Kemalism, Islam and Nation in a Changing World
		1. A Reformist Prime Minister: Turgut Özal2
		2. The 1980 Military Junta (Coup) and the 1982 Constitution
		3. Turkey’s Economic and Educational Reforms
		4. Adoption of the Turkish – Islamic Synthesis
		5. Özal’s Manifesto on Educational Reforms
		6. Religious Education Policies in the Age of Turgut Özal
		7. Turkish Ideology in 1982 Constitution
		8. The Regulation of Religious Education in Turkey after 1980
	5. Changing the State, Changing Education
		1. The Emergence of Political Islam to Power
		2. Changing Values in Turkey
		3. Neo – Liberalism in Education
		4. The Growth of Islamic Education
	6. Combining Islam with the National State
		1. New Curriculum Developments
		2. AKP Policies towards Imam – Hatip Schools
		3. Higher Education and AKP
		4. Combination of Education and Islam
		5. Islam as an Element of the Turkish Identity
	7. Conclusions
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