Between Turk and Muslim: Children and the Qur'an Courses after the 1928 Alphabet Law

Autor/in	Yilmaz, Hale
Titel	Between Turk and Muslim: Children and the Qur'an Courses after the 1928 Alphabet Law
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 55 (2019) 6, S.812-828 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yilmaz, Hale)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2019.1672764
Schlagwörter	Muslims; Islam; Religious Education; Educational History; Alphabets; Educational Change; Socialization; Clergy; Semitic Languages; Primary Sources; Informal Education; Self Concept; Nationalism; Religious Factors; Foreign Countries; Social Change; Laws; Latin; Written Language; Ethnography; Oral History; Parent Attitudes; Children; Government Role; Educational Attainment; Crime; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muslim; Muslimin; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Buchstabenschrift; Bildungsreform; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Klerus; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Primärquelle; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Selbstkonzept; Nationalismus; Ausland; Sozialer Wandel; Law; Recht; Latein; Geschriebene Sprache; Ethnografie; Oral tradition; Mündliche Überlieferung; Elternverhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Türkei
Abstract	This paper examines how the religious education of Turkish children in the "old letters" became an area of everyday contestation between the state and families and communities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Since children were seen as the nation's future, state authorities were adamant about teaching the new generation the new alphabet and were equally interested in preventing them from learning the old alphabet. While schools began using the new Turkish alphabet in the 1928-1929 academic year, the informal neighbourhood Qur'an courses held in mosques and private homes became a fiercely contested site between a state determined to socialise children into secular nationhood (partly) by preventing them from learning the Arabic letters, and families and imams who were committed to giving children religious education (necessitating the study of the Arabic alphabet so the Qur'an could be read in its original Arabic). Combining primary sources from previously untapped Ministry of the Interior documents concerning the monitoring in Anatolian towns of these informal courses with insights from the subaltern school on everyday forms of resistance, this article sheds light on a dimension of the 1928 alphabet reform that ties together questions of alphabet change, national and religious identities, education, and childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01