Author: Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Robert College Record
Author: Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Record
Author: United States. Department of State. Division of PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Record
Author: United States Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Robert College of Constantinople
Author: Nick PetrovPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666921750
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Robert College of Constantinople is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside the borders of the United States. The history of the College includes 160 years of originality, innovations and astonishing development that impacted the history of Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, the Ottoman Empire and the United States of America.
A History of Robert College
Author: John FreelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
America and the Making of Modern Turkey
Author: Ali ErkenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178672393X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argued that Turkey needed the technical skills and wealth offered by American education, and so a series of American schools was set up across the country to educate the Turkish youth. Here, Ali Erken, in the first study of its kind, argues that these organizations had a huge impact on political and economic thought in Turkey - acting as a form of `soft power' for US national interests throughout the 20th Century. Robert College, originally a missionary school founded by US benefactors, has been responsible for educating two Turkish Prime Ministers, writers such as Orhan Pamuk and a huge number of influential economists, politicians and journalists. The end result of these American philanthropic efforts, Erken argues, was a consensus in the 1970s that the country must `westernize'. This mindset, and the opposition viewpoint it engendered, has come to define political struggle in modern Turkey - torn between a capitalist `modern' West and an Islamic `Ottoman' East. The book also reveals how and why the Rockefeller and Ford foundations funneled large amounts of money into Turkey post-1945, and undertook activities in support of `Western' candidates in Turkey as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. This is an essential contribution to the history of US-Turkish relations, and the influence of the West in Turkish political thought.
Robert College
Author: Keith Maurice GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Internationalism and the New Turkey
Author: Erik SjöbergPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031009320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case of the Near East that meant coming to terms with the radically nationalist modernization project of Kemal Atatürk’s Turkish Republic. Using the case of Robert College, an American educational institution in Istanbul, which aimed to foster a future local elite of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious student body, the book sheds light on the negotiation between two conceptions of modernity, as represented by American internationalist ideals and the tenets of Kemalism the Westernizing, yet deeply ethnocentric national ideology of post-1923 Turkey. Based on recently declassified archival sources, this study addresses the educational intentions and strategies for adjustment of college faculty. It also offers a rare insight into the mindset of young students attempting to make sense of what internationalism and religious, ethnic and national identity meant in the Ottoman past and in the new republican Turkey. Focusing on Robert College and the forgotten case of its dean and social studies instructor, Dr. Edgar Jacob Fisher, it addresses the little-researched field of internationalism and peace education in interwar Turkey.
Author: Cornell University