Armenian schools in contemporary Turkey : governmentality, community, resilience
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2023
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2023.
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In the grip of central examination systems, the marketization and privatization of schooling, regulations of a nation state which maintains its emphasis on itsTurko-Islamictenets, and the escalation of competition among students as an outcome of an endeavor to be incorporated into global job markets, the Armenian schools struggle to breed a nurturing soil forArmenian cultural sustainability.The main objective of this research is to analyze to what extent the Armenian schools serve as places of cultural empowermentin spite of the external constraints that the educational system in Turkey breeds and the political targeting Armenian community experiences today. Although the schools are places of acculturation in which the wishes of the nation state almost always prevail, this does not mean that latitude in education is fully encompassed by precepts of national education. There is a possibility for the schools to function as spaces for cultural self-realization as opposed to the political targeting and marginalization they are subjected to. The aim of this study is to unpack the broader educational field encapsulating the Armenian schools, and to paint a comprehensive picture which summarizes bureaucratic functioning, quotidian practices, daily predicaments, the network of relationships inte woven around the schools or any pattern that delineate their overall milieu, so that it could be possible to understand how self-meaning is produced in the schools.