"We should be ourselves before being a European": The new curriculum, new textbooks and Turkish modernity

Basit Öğe Kaydı
dc.authorscopusid26026246900
dc.contributor.authorÇayir, K.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:17:47Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:17:47Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractGlobalization and transformations in nation-state structures require developing a new social-political language that would allow a peaceful coexistence for various identities and interests. This entails revising the link between local, histories and the "universal." Education can play a crucial role for developing this language. This paper examines the new curriculum and textbook in Turkey on the basis of this problematic. Tie Ministry of National Education states that the new curriculum aims at preparing Turkey to the information age and the European Union. However, new textbooks still take an apologetic, essentialist, and nationalist stance toward Europe due to the historical-psychological background of Turkish modernity. Textbook authors reconstruct local history in the mirror of the West and imagine a homogenous 'Us' which is presented as the source of modern universal values. This stance is a manifestation of historical desire to break down the perceived hierarchy between Turkey and the West. It, however, reproduces such a hierarchy by placing the West ahead of Turkey along with a linear conception of history. The paper suggests a new frame for curriculum developers and textbook authors to recontextualize the link between Turkey, the West and modernity. This frame needs to be developed by taking a distance from both local experience and the West. © 2009 E?itim Danişmanli?i ve Araştirmalari İletişim Hizmetleri Tic. Ltd. Şti.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage1690en_US
dc.identifier.issn1303-0485
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-72549115999en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage1681en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6734
dc.identifier.volume9en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofKuram ve Uygulamada Egitim Bilimlerien_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectNew Curriculumen_US
dc.subjectNon-Western Modernityen_US
dc.subjectTextbooksen_US
dc.subjectTurkey And Modernizationen_US
dc.title"We should be ourselves before being a European": The new curriculum, new textbooks and Turkish modernityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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