Abstract
OVERVIEW OF VILLAGE INSTITUTES IN THE LIGHT OF THE WORK NAMED BOZKIRDAKİ FENER
In this research, it is aimed to examine the discussions on the village institutes model and the village institutes around the book titled "Lighthouse in the Steppe, Memoirs of a Village Institute Teacher" written by a retired teacher named Faik Birol. In the research, the document analysis method, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used, and the obtained data were analyzed through descriptive analysis. This book, which consists of Faik Birol's memoirs about his student years at the village institute and his 36-year professional life as a village teacher, also sheds light on the phenomenon of village institutes, on which discussions have never been lacking since its establishment. The findings indicate that village institutes were established with the objectives of bringing education to the village, developing villages by increasing production, and creating a modern society by adopting the republican ideology at a time when approximately eighty percent of the country's population lived in rural areas; On the other hand, it shows that the discussions on these institutions, with the transition to the multi-party system in 1946, were ideological rather than pedagogical.
Keywords
education, village institutes, development, teacher training.
