Village Education in The Journal of Eğitim Hareketleri (1955-1960)

Since the first years of the Republic, various policies have been developed to enable citizens to contribute to the economic, social, and cultural life of the country. Education was seen as the most important means for the success of these policies and projects were designed to educate the villagers, who constitute most of the population. Policies developed for village education during the single-party period continued during the Democratic Party period. However, the new government produced new projects in line with its own policies and made radical changes in the institutions and organizations within the old policy. This change was felt especially in primary education, religious education, and village institutes. In the first years of the Democratic Party's rule, various media outlets emerged thanks to the freedom it provided to the press. One of these publications is The Journal of Eğitim Hareketleri, which started its publication life in 1955 by Hıfzırrahman Raşit Öymen. The Journal has tried to produce solution suggestions by addressing the problems that the Turkish education system has encountered since the first years of the Republican Era. The journal includes articles by foreign and local educators, as well as literary experts, theologians, historians, and sociologists who are experts in their fields. It is seen that The Journal of Eğitim Hareketleri also attaches importance to villages and education in villages. The Journal includes the policies implemented during the Single Party and Democrat Party periods regarding the enlightenment of the villagers and the education of the village children. In this context, the problems of village schools and village teachers and the place of village children and villagers in the Turkish education system are discussed. In this study, it was tried to reveal how the issue of education in the village was managed in The Journal of Eğitim Hareketleri during the Democratic Party period