Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PLANLAMA-PLANNING, cilt.28, sa.3, ss.261-281, 2018 (ESCI)
Village institutes are the active subjects of planned education movement having development vision that rose from villages in the history of Turkey, which entered in the process of modernism with the proclamation of the Republic. After a national war extended for many years, a development giving precedence to the villages and focusing on education was planned by taking into consideration of high level of rural population and low level of education in the country. The spirit of enlightenment and the vision of rural institutes came together, and 21 village institutes were founded throughout the country between 1940 and 1948. On the background of founding village institutes, there are the marks of a comprehensive analysis of the conditions of this exhausted but determined country. All the village institutes were the locomotives of development by virtue of the fact that feed by endogenous resources alongside the contemporary cultural, scientific, and applied knowledge they provided. Village institutes have unique features in comparison with the usual educational institutions such as their collaborative construction processes, emphasis on practicing and producing they placed besides theoretical information, spatial organization of campuses, precious education models, planned development processes, their contributions to the locality and the country as well. When there was no public institution responsible for national and regional planning, the ministry responsible for education developed a regional-based vision while deciding the locations of these institutions, besides it introduced an education approach to the country that was very new for the world. At this point, the main purpose of this research is to evaluate the village institutes regarding the planned approach that had been taken into consideration in their establishment process. The research is conducted through the records concerning that period, and the written and visual documents compiled from the studies carried on about the village institutes. The results reached have a guiding role even for today for the regions primarily waiting for their local-specific dynamics to be revealed, and also for educational approaches those have a planning vision at national and regional levels.