Selcuk Aksin Somel

The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy, and Discipline (Ottoman Empire and It's Heritage) Selcuk Aksin Somel

Dealing with the modernization of Ottoman public education during the period of reform, this study is based on sources such as Ottoman archives, published documents, textbooks, and memoirs. It discusses the main factors that led to Ottoman educational reforms. Their aim was to raise a class of educated bureaucrats as a means of administrative centralization, and a design to inculcate authoritarian and religious values among the population for the legitimization of state authority. The main topics in this volume include the expansion of provincial education, financial policies, curricular issues, the educational ideology of the Tanzimat (1839-1876) and the Hamidian periods (1878-1908), ethnic groups in the Balkans, Anatolia and Arabia, and the process of socialization. This book addresses particularly those readers interested in the educational, social and administrative history of the late Ottoman period.