مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Ministers of Education of the Second Constitutionalism Period

Abstract :

With the announcement of the Constitutionalism II., which is one of the important milestones of the Ottoman modernization movement, there have been several improvements in terms of political, economical and social contexts, except from the traditional structure. Education was inauspiciously the most important tool for the team that has done the revolution to bring these improvements to the public and make them stable. The political power that knows this situation has considered the education as the main problem of the country and they have started a total work with its institutions, mechanisms, and organizations. The most important point of these attempts was, of course, the choosing of the ministers who would carry out all these education activities with a certain power. This study is about the education ministers who have worked during the period from the announcement of the Constitutionalism II to the end of the World War I, and their activities. 11 education ministers have worked as principal or representative during this period. Three of them have worked as a minister in different periods for a very short time, and this proves how the period was unstable. The effects of these people in the Constitutionalism period is worth analyzing when we think that the education views of these people who are at the top position of the education institutions affect the education policies of the government.