The First Course Books of Turkish Republic

Abstract

The underlying constitution of the educational system of Turkish Republic and its revolutions was the Act of Tevhid-i Tedrisat which established the grounds for the quality of the education at schools and the educational management. The main problem in this new framework was curriculum development, syllabus designs of the courses and the choice of the course books. Since there was no earlier preparation till the act of “Tevhid-i Tedrisat“, the first step was to revise the earlier coursebooks and syllabi. The old ideologies and the topics representing the Ottoman Empire were eliminated and they were replaced by the new ideology of Turkish republic. The materials selected from the all course books up to that time were used till the early 1930s when the new coursebooks were designed and published. This study aims at highlighting and documenting complete list of the coursebooks which have not been published anywhere with an introduction to tackle the background, which is believed to pave the way for the further research.