Weaving for War & Peace: Education of the Children in the Hereke Factory Campus (1912-1918)
Abstract
This article focuses
on the education of the children at Hereke Factory during the turbulent years from the Balkan Wars
(1912-1913) through World War I (1914-1918) up to the seizure of the factory by
the British in 1918. This article investigates the schooling system at the factory, including
both formal and vocational education, and its relationship to those of other
workhouses supported by philanthropy within the empire. Charitable
and philanthropic institutions within the Ottoman socio-political system
provided for the employment of widows and orphans who had lost relatives in the
Balkan Wars and World War I. In this philanthropic network, Hereke Imperial
Factory, as an institution to create funds to help orphans and widows, became a
model of vocational education for needy in general education system. Later, the
factory became a center at the target of nationalist-religious philanthropic
discourses.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Didem Yavuz Velipaşaoğlu
This is me
United States
Publication Date
July 8, 2018
Submission Date
June 22, 2017
Acceptance Date
November 25, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 4 Number: 1