OSMANLIDA KADIN ÖGRETMENLİ EV SIBYAN MEKTEPLERİ(Amerikan ve Fransız Eğitim Tarihinden Benzer Örnekler)

Abstract

This research publishes documents from the Dttoman archives of women who taught girls at their homes in Istanbul during the Reform period (1839-1878). These documents, dated 1849, state that these women, whose houses had become dilapidated, asked the government to repair them, and the Prime Minister, concurred with this request on grounds that these houses which taught girls "meant schools for girls only", in the recommendation he submitted to the Sultan and the Sultan approved this request. This resean'h revealed the following two new primary information: 1. The document we published prove that prior to the teachers who were trained at Female Teacher School which opened in 1870 for the first time, some educated women gave rudimentary education to girls in their homes and like places (sometimes co-ed) and the State accepted these activities of theirs as primary education. Thus, the profession of teaching for women existed long before 1870. 2. We may refer to these schools as "houses with women teachers, primary schools". Thus, we have introduced a new terminology to the history of Turkish education. In our research, we have also discussed similar applications in the United States and France. For example, these schools were called "dame schools" during the colonial times in America.