PhD student in History and Education and a part of the graduate school PEDASK (Schooling in perspective: A graduate school in applied history of education).
My PhD project aims to explore how womanhood was constructed within the educational discourse in the transition period from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. I am trying to understand the position of girls and women by getting into the larger discourse of women’s education from different entry points of curriculum, women’s magazines and educational/teacher journals for different time periods. Through these different entry points, it is possible to follow the continuities and changes regarding education and gender in the late Ottoman period starting with 1859 with the foundation of the first modern public school for girls until the early Republic of Turkey (1933).