The Politics of Education in Turkey
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Education in Turkey

Islam, Neoliberalism and Gender

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Education in Turkey

Islam, Neoliberalism and Gender

About this book

Control over education has been a keenly contested area since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey. Central to this contest has been the question of whose values would be passed down to future generations, with the inculcation of gender segregation in primary schools a key marker in ongoing cultural battles over Turkey's secularist founding principles and the growing dominance of Islamist political movements. This book offers an in-depth analysis of gender inequality in action in the Turkish schooling system by examining changes in education provision and culture in the years since 2012. Based on two school ethnographies conducted in an AKP-dominated district of Istanbul where the author worked as a teacher and researcher, it examines neoliberal education policies and their co-option by the AKP and other Islamist movements to promote their own agendas, while also considering the effects of the struggle between rival Islamist groups. Grounding its theoretical approach with empirical evidence of ideology in action, it provides an important analysis of the way in which boys and girls are socialized in Turkey's public schooling system.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Abbreviations
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 The contested terrain: Education in Turkey from the republic to the AKP
  12. 3 Politics of marketing education
  13. 4 Culture wars: Fragments from ‘lived culture’ of Talip and Zinnur
  14. 5 Controlling gazes and faces of surveillance
  15. 6 Fashioning gender: Nurturing mothers vs punitive fathers
  16. 7 Conclusion
  17. Appendix
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. Imprint