The Effects of the Armenian schools on the ethnic identity formation of the Armenian students in Turkey

Download

index.pdf

Date

2017

Author

Barış, Linda

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

617
views

142
downloads

In this study, the discourse analysis of the historical procession of the Armenian schools, the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment and development stages of the Republic of Turkey have been analyzed in terms of the influence of the Armenian schools on the formation of the ethnic identities of the Armenian students in Turkey. The relationship between the Armenian schools and the ethnic identity formation of the Armenian students, problematized within the regulations imposed by the Turkish republic in the field of education for Armenian schools and called as Turkification politics, has been evaluated in the context of in-depth interviews conducted with various Armenian schools, principals, teachers, students and graduates who still continue to exist. In this study, considering the fact that various regulations in the field of education such as the Turkish education system and curriculum, the regulation of the courses, the selection of the teachers and the contents of the textbooks were formed around the Turkish identity, it has been questioned how the Armenian students were able to realize their ethnic identity by staying in between Turkish and Armenian identities throughout their education life. How the students were influenced by the Armenian schools in the formation of the perceptions of the Armenian identity, the students who trained in both Turkish and Armenian schools, the transitions they experienced between the Turkish and Armenian schools, and the way that these transitions effected how the Armenian identities as the other are experienced were evaluated and examined comparatively.

Subject Keywords

Schools, Armenian, Armenian students, Armenians

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12621723/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26994

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

The Concept of homeland among Anatolian Armenians : Armenians of Yerevan and Istanbul Bakırcı, Erman; Ergun Özbolat, Ayça; Department of Sociology (2013) This thesis, aims to provide an analysis of the perception of homeland of the Armenians in Istanbul and Armenians in Armenia of Anatolian origin in order to identify the meanings attributed to the concept of homeland in the formation of their identity. Based on the in-depth interviews, this thesis focuses on transformation of the homeland and questions where is “home”, “homeland” and “diaspora”. The analysis is based on data collected during fieldwork conducted in Istanbul, Turkey during the months of Novem...
The re-emergence of the Armenian question as an aspect of Armenian nationalism and its effects on Turkey: 1960-1990 Güneş, Yeliz; Çelik, Birten; Department of Middle East Studies (2010) This thesis aims to analyze the re-emergence of the Armenian question as an aspect of Armenian nationalism and its effects on Turkey between the years 1960 and 1990. The Armenian question is a very controversial political issue with its multi-dimensional characteristic. The Armenian question emerged with the Ottoman Armenians’ autonomy demands as an extension of Armenian nationalism in the nineteenth century. With the interest of the imperialist states, the Armenian question became an international problem ...
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire according to IKDAM 1914-1918 Güneş (Eroğlu), Münevver; Turan, Ömer; Department of History (2003) This thesis analyzes the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire according to the news of Ikdam during the period from 1914 to 1918.The social,economic,religious,political, cultural and educational lives of the Armenians will be examined in the light of the news of Ikdam during the World War I.In this thesis the effects of nationalism on the Armenians and the reasons of the emergence of the Armenian nationalism will be pointed out too.Because Armenian nationalism that started in the last quarter of the 19th ce...
The Role of Azerbaijani diaspora organizations in Turkey in shaping the perception of homeland Şentürk, Sezin; Ergun Özbolat, Ayça; Department of Eurasian Studies (2013) This thesis analyses the role of Azerbaijani diaspora organizations in Turkey in shaping the perception of homeland of members of Azerbaijani diaspora organizations in Turkey from the perspective of Azerbaijani diaspora elites with respect to historical geography, cultural and linguistic bonds. The conditions reconstructing the perception of homeland of members of Azerbaijani diaspora organizations are evaluated in the light of findings obtained through qualitative research. The thesis argues that historica...
Agos and Armenian community: an inquiry on the reformulation of Armenian identity in Turkey / Koç Gabrielsen, Yasemin; Çırakman Deveci, Aslı; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2015) This study presents the process of identity reformulation of Armenian community in Turkey through analyzing the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos between February 1996 and May 2014. This study explores Armenian identity in social constructivist terms treating Agos as a political text. In this inquiry, first, analytical elements of Armenian identity in Turkey are determined as civic life and political representation, 1915 narratives and collective memory, and religion. Secondly, Agos’s reflection of Armenian i...

Citation Formats

L. Barış, “The Effects of the Armenian schools on the ethnic identity formation of the Armenian students in Turkey,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2017.