Towards a “new” Turkishness? Islam, education and the “ideal” Turk in the 1950s
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Towards a “New” Turkishness? Islam, Education and the Ideal Turk in the 1950s looks at the evolution of Turkish nationalism and national identity between 1950 and 1960 under Prime Minister Adnan Menderes’s Demokrat Party (DP). In this quest, it employs education as an instrument of analysis, motivated by the understanding that at the heart of educational change rests questions of identity. Drawing on a wide spectrum of education and education-related material between 1930 and 1960, this project examines the shifts in educational policy in the 1950s; compares and contrasts this era’s educational vision against those of the earlier periods; and seeks to understand how and to what extent the pedagogical discourse regarding Turkishness evolved throughout this decade. The 1950s has now become synonymous in Turkish popular consciousness with the emergence of religion within the public sphere and the conceptualisation of a more religious national identity. This project therefore lends particular emphasis to the Menderes government’s approaches to religious education, and asks whether religion played a more assertive role in defining what it meant to be Turkish in this period, as historiography suggests. Where appropriate, this project seeks to place Turkey’s process of identity-formation in a global perspective, and thereby to understand how Turkey’s changing educational mission, and connected to it, its reinterpretation of Turkishness was a response to various domestic transformations and global developments within the context of the Cold War.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".