Educational activity of Turkestan Jadids

Abstract

The national progressives who have appeared in the majority of the countries of the East at the end of the XIXth beginning of the XXth centuries estimated the Central Asian Jadidism as reflection of the reformatory movement of the local intellectuals. The concept «jadid» formed from Arab «usul-and-jadid» («new method») designates new ways of learning in an example of the European education. Such educational maintenance of Jadidism in the course of social and political development of the country has changed the status of old social and political system, having provided her new, original character. Together with it, process of formation and high-quality changes of Jadidism in the country can be divided into two periods: cultural and educational and period of political struggle. The educational ideas of Jadidism have generated need to reform an education system in the country according to modern models. Naturally, such reforms have adopted also the colonial authorities in the country. In the course of education system reform realization the imperial government protecting colonial interests in the actions relied on the principles of Great Russian chauvinism. This article deals with the new views on jadid movement, educational ideas which created national liberation ideology in Central Asia and also political programs and strategic objectives of national liberation movement.