NUSRET KOYMEN'S CONCEPTION OF DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC EDUCATION
NUSRET KÖYMEN'İN DEMOKRATİK HALK EĞİTİMİ ANLAYIŞI

Author : Ufuk AKIN -Beyhan ZABUN
Number of pages : 425-431

Abstract

In this research, Nusret Koymen's point of view to democratic public education is investigated by taking his understanding of education as the point of departure. Bits of information on which this research is based are compiled by literature survey and document scrutinizing are obtained by qualitative-data-analysis method on Koymen's works. Especially the validity of the popular ideas of “democracy” and “public education” developed around his “Let's save democracy, it is public-education that will save it” work in which he ascribe utmost importance to this two topics is questioned by comparing them with the mainstream/academic definitions and norms. Similarly, his “Toward the Great Enlightenment” work too emphasize his democratic public education idea.

Keywords

Democracy, democratic education, public education

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