Vacillating between Opposing Conceptions of Personhood: individualism and conformism in Turkish educational practices

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dc.contributor.authorCeyhan, Muge Ayan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:49:12Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:49:12Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractBased on one and a half years of participant observation at Bakis School, this article aims to explore two different sets of educational practices, one which seemingly promotes sameness, obedience and conformity, and the other difference, entrepreneurialism and individualism. By way of discussing the shifting cultural values, beliefs and lifestyles in Turkey as a result of post-1980 capitalist modernization, this article provides an account of the way in which larger macro forces impact the classroom values and educational practices in Bakis School. The ethnographic evidence indicates that teachers were far from fully comprehending the concept of the individual the school aims to promote, and therefore vacillated between opposing perceptions of personhood. From the point of view of comparative education research, this article argues that long-term participant observation provides us with intricate data, and clearly reveals the difficulties of putting educational reforms into practice in cases where the underlying philosophy is not fully comprehended, or maybe even desired by the recipient society.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2304/rcie.2009.4.2.204
dc.identifier.endpage210en_US
dc.identifier.issn1745-4999
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-70350025247en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage204en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2304/rcie.2009.4.2.204
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8124
dc.identifier.volume4en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000446169700007en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofResearch in Comparative and International Educationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.titleVacillating between Opposing Conceptions of Personhood: individualism and conformism in Turkish educational practicesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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