Curriculum Studies in Turkey

Sumer Aktan is Assistant Professor in the Necatibey Faculty of Education at Balikesir University, Turkey. His primary research interests are curriculum history and theory, educational philosophy, and instructional processes.

Chapter 1. Islamic Civilization and its Classical Curriculum Theory: the Philosophy, Institutions and Important Theoreticians of Classical Curriculum TheoryChapter 2. The Classical Curriculum Theory and the Madrasas in the Ottoman EmpireChapter 3. The Modernization of Education in the Ottoman Empire: The First Steps, 1730-1839Chapter 4. Institutionalization, Bureaucratization and Westernization in Curriculum Theory, 1839-1908Chapter 5. Curriculum Theory in Early Republic Era: Philosophy and PerspectivesChapter 6. Reflections on the New Curriculum Theory: Social Studies Curriculum and Civic Education in Turkey (1924-2004): A Case StudyChapter 7. Curriculum Theorists in the Early Republic Period of TurkeyChapter 8. Conclusion