MİZANCI MURAD VE "TURFANDA MI TURFA MI?" ROMANINDA EĞİTİM

Abstract

Innovation movements accelerating in every area with the Imperial Edict of Reorganization Tanzimat acquired a different dimension with the appearance of the first private newspaper after 1860. Artists of the era have made the best of the strength of literature in changing socio-cultural perceptions of the society and, in sharing their political views with wide masses of population. Novels, as a genre introduced with translated novels after 1860 has been effectively used in this social transformation. In the novel Turfanda mi, Turfa mi? evaluated in this context, Mehmet Murad Bey, who was one of the leading names of the Young Turcs movement and who became well-known as Mizanci Murad with the newspaper Mizan that he published in 1886, shared his views in vast range of domains from politics to economy, from bureaucracy to education. Presenting his novel with the thought of writing a “National novel”, Mizanci Murad has pointed out the “system of education” as the only remedy to save the country from backwardness.  Yrd. Doc. Dr.; Sakarya Universitesi, Egitim Bilimleri Enstitusu, Turkce Egitimi Bolumu, mehmetoz@sakarya.edu.tr.  Doktora Ogr.; Sakarya Universitesi, Egitim Bilimleri Enstitusu, Turkce Egitimi ABD, zkantas@gmail.com. In this study, primarily our education system after Tanzimat Reform Era and also comments of the artists living in this era have been summarized, later educational values have been determined via content analysis method by scanning the novel of “Is It Modern or Bigoted?” of Mizanci Murad who is offering solution proposals to our country’s problems concerning education that are valid even today.