Savaşta ve Barışta Dokuma: Hereke Fabrikası’nda Çocukların Eğitimi (1912-1918)

Abstract

This article focuses
 on the education of the children at Hereke Factory during the turbulent years from the Balkan Wars
 (1912-1913) through World War I (1914-1918) up to the seizure of the factory by
 the British in 1918. This article investigates the schooling system at the factory, including
 both formal and vocational education, and its relationship to those of other
 workhouses supported by philanthropy within the empire. Charitable
 and philanthropic institutions within the Ottoman socio-political system
 provided for the employment of widows and orphans who had lost relatives in the
 Balkan Wars and World War I. In this philanthropic network, Hereke Imperial
 Factory, as an institution to create funds to help orphans and widows, became a
 model of vocational education for needy in general education system. Later, the
 factory became a center at the target of nationalist-religious philanthropic
 discourses.