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How Are Human Rights Presented in Turkey's Textbooks? Development of an Escapist Model of Human Rights Education (1950-2020)
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Sen, Abdulkerim – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Drawing on a critical conceptualisation of human rights education (HRE), this study investigates how human rights were presented in a set of textbooks which were used in Turkey from 1950 to 2020. Findings show that the textbooks avoid human rights issues, struggles, campaigns, and activists by sustaining a de-politicised and de-contextualised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Three Evils of Citizenship Education in Turkey: Ethno-Religious Nationalism, Statism and Neoliberalism
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Sen, Abdulkerim – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
Relying on a theoretical frame developed in reference to an interdisciplinary research field, this article provides a critical analysis of Turkey's citizenship education (CE) curriculum with a view to revealing discourses that inhibit the promotion of cosmopolitan values of human rights, democratic citizenship and diversity. The analysis…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Political Attitudes
Articulations of Islamic Nationalism in the Educational Reform Discourse of 'New Turkey'
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Sen, Abdulkerim – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Turkey has become a powerful example of rising ethno-religious nationalism since the ruling Justice and Development Party allied with the Nationalist Movement Party in 2016. Conceptualising the political ideology in power as Islamic nationalism, I expose ways in which this ideology is articulated in the education reform discourse of 'new Turkey'…
Descriptors: Islam, Nationalism, Religious Factors, Ethnic Groups