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A Retrospective and Critical View of Turkish Citizenship Education

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Islam and Citizenship Education

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An ideological intent has long been attributed to citizenship and citizenship education in Turkey (Çayır & Gürkaynak, 2007; Çayır, 2011; Koçal, 2012). Therefore, related concepts should be evaluated in their historical and cultural context in order to understand Turkish citizenship and citizenship education: In the ancient tradition of Turkey, the notion of Homeland had an identity associated with sacred connotations. Traditionally, the notion of the state such as the eternal state[in Turkish, devlet-i ebed-müddet] dominated individual and collective consciousness. In the view of the state regarding society, the understanding “keep society alive to make the state live” was adopted as a principle; in other words, there existed a spiritual-oral contract between the state and society for mutual preservation.

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  1. Dep. of Educational Sciences, Osmangazi University, Meşelik Kampusu, Odunpazarı, 26480, Turkey

    Prof. Dr. Selahattin Turan

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  1. Institut für Islamische Studien, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Ednan Aslan

  2. Theology Dept., Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Marcia Hermansen

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Turan, S. (2015). A Retrospective and Critical View of Turkish Citizenship Education. In: Aslan, E., Hermansen, M. (eds) Islam and Citizenship Education. Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08603-9_15

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