The Question of the Modernization of Turkey's Rural Areas: Village Institutes

Abstract

This study aims to examine the Village Institutes -that is one of the most important initiatives carried out in rural areas of Turkey-, the village educators and village teachers who have been educated in these institutions, the quality of the education they received, their duties, and the contributions they made in the villages in a detailed manner. The starting point of this study is basically the fact that the notion of village educators and village teachers are often confused with each other in the literature. This study aims to bring an end to this confusion and to examine the village institutes initiative from a more comprehensive perspective. As a result of this study, it has been revealed that studies conducted without considering the existence of two different village types in rural areas of Turkey would be misleading. In addition, it was stated that the concepts of village educator and village teacher should be accepted and examined in the historical process. URL: https://vsas.fvs.upjs.sk/