CHILD DEVELOPMENT (TURKISH)
Associate TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 QF-EHEA: Short Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 5

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEP1503 Greek and Turkish Relations in the Aegean Fall 3 0 3 4
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: Tr
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Associate
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NURAN FERYAL TANSUĞ DOURLARİS
Course Objectives: Considering political, economical and social developments of the 19th century, this course aims to analyze the role of the western Anatolia in the process of integration of the Ottoman Empire into the world capitalist economy and in absorbing and transforming western ideas and pattern of life to the empire.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;

1. Students shall gain useful and necessary background to understand cosmopoitan Aegean society of the earlier years within the framework of peaceful coexistence
2. Students shall learn about transformation of the Greek-Turkish Relations during the process of transtion of Empire to Nation-State.
3. Students shall learn to examine the dynamics of the region through exploring economic and socio-cultural life with a interdisciplinary perspective.
4. Students shall develop critical thinking skills to approach Greek and Turkish Nationalisms in the Aegean.
5. Students shall learn about significant pionering academic works.
6. Students shall synthesize diverse kinds of information and to express ideas clearly and cogently.

Course Content

Analysis of the dilemmas of the transition to nation-state with respect to ethnic conflict and clash of two nationalisms in the Aegean.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to Course and Review of Syllabus
2) Western Anatolia and Aegean Islands in the Byzantine Times & Transformation into the Ottoman Rule Speros Vryonis, “The Decline of Byzantine Civilization in Asia Minor, Eleventh-Fifteenth century.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 29 (1975), pp. 351-356. Halil İnalcık, “The Rise of the Turcoman Maritime Principalities in Anatolia, Byzantium and Crusades,” Byzantinische Forschungen, Adolf M. Hakker, Walter E. Kaegi.
3) Crusaders in the Aegean & Consolidation of the Ottoman rule & ruling of multi-ethnic and multi-religious Western Anatolia and Aegean Islands Necmi Ülker, “İzmir from the End of the Byzantine Ear to the Times of the Turkish Republic”, in İzmir, İstanbul, 1993, pp. 76-80. Halil İnalcık, “The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans,” in Halil İnalcık, Essays in Ottoman History (Istanbul: Eren Press, 1998). Daniel Goffman, İzmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650, Seatle and London, University of Washington Press, 1990, chapter 1. İdris Bostan, “The Establishment of the Province of Cezayir-i Bahr-ı Sefid,” in Halcyon Days in Crete IV, The Kapudan Pasha His Office and His Domain, ed. Elizabeth Zachariadou (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2002), 240-51.
4) Nationalism ve Ethnicity Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 171-18. Joseph Stalin, “The nation,” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 18-21. Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities,” in John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 89-96. Üner Turgay, “Nation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 3, 1995, pp. 232-235. Anthony Smith, Anthony D. Smith’s opening Statement: Nations and their pasts,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, 358-365. Ernest Gellner’s Reply: ‘Do Nations have navels?’” in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, pp. 371-378. Eric Hobsbawn, “The Opiate Ethnicity,” Alphabet City, No. 2, 1992, pp. 8-11.
5) Nationalism & Ethnicity Greek and Turkish Cases Will Lymlicka, “Misunderstanding nationalism” in Theorizing Nationalism, ed. Roger Beiner, Albany, NY: State Univ of New York Press, 1999, pp. 131-141 Bernard Yack, “The Myth of civic nationalism,” National Pact, July 1, 2002, (2 pages) Louay Safi, “Nationalism and the multinational state,” The American Journal of Islamic Social sciences, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1992. Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Modernity, Emlightenment, Westernization” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 2, 15-41.
6) Ottoman Modernization/Transformation Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 3 & 4. Reşat Kasaba, “The Enlightenment, Greek Civilization and The Ottoman Empire,” The Journal of Historical Sociology, 16, no. 1, March 2003, 1-21. Reşat Kasaba, “Dreams of Empires, Dreams of Nations” in Empire to nation: historical perspectives on the making of the modern world, eds. Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
7) Greek Modernization/Transformation Gregory Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture Inventing National Literature [Gecikmiş Modernlik ve Estetik Kültür, Milli Edebiyatın İcat Edilişi] The Regents of University of Minnesota, 1991, chapter 2. Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992, chapter 3.
8) Aegean during the transformation of the Empire, 19th century, part I Reşat Kasaba, “İzmir,” Review, XVI, 4, Fall, 1993, pp. 387-410. Daniel Goffman, “İzmir From Village to Colonial Port City” The Ottoman City Between East and West, Aleppo, İzmir, and Istanbul, eds. Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Masters, Cambridge University Press, 1999. An Overview to the Aegean Islands
9) Aegean during the transformation of the Empire, 19th century, part II Elena Frangakis Syrett, “The Economic Activities of the Greek Community of İzmir in the Second half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism, 1999, eds. Charles Issawi, Dimitri Gondicas, The Darwin Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1999, pp. 17-44. Sibel Zandi Sayek, “Orchestrating Difference, Performing Identity: Urban Space and Public Rituals in Nineteenth Century İzmir,” Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment, ed. Nezar Al Sayyad, Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001
10) Aegean during the transformation of the Empire, 19th century, part II Ziya Gökalp, “What is Turkism? And “Turkism and Turanism” in The Principles of Turkism, translated and annotated by Robert Devereux, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968, 12-21. David Kushner, The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, London: Frank Cass, 1977, introduction, 1-19. Soner Çağaptay, Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey, Who is a Turk? (London and New York: Routledge), chapter 3. Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Past, Memory, History” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 4, 77-101.
11) Clash of Greek and Turkish Nationalisms in the Aegean Sia Anagnastopoulou, “İzmir’s ‘National Historical Mission’” The Passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Nation States, A Long and Difficult Process: The Greek Case, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2004, pp. 75-101. “İzmir 1922: A Port City Unravels,” Culture and Modernity from Meditarrenean and to The Indian Ocean, eds. Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Christopher Alan Bayly, New York: Colombia University Press, 2002, pp. 205-229.
12) The Impact of the Nationalism on the two sides of the Aegean Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, “Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphing into İzmir” in Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey, Encounters with Europe, 1850-1950, London, New York, I.B. Tauris, pp. 217-235. Harry Tzimitras, “Europe, Nationalism in the Turkish Greek Aegean,” in In the Long Shadow of Europe Greeks and Turks in the area of Post-Nationalism, eds. Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Kerem Öktem (Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nihoff Publishers, 2009), pp.239-262.
13) The Response of the People to the expanding nationalism on the two sides of the Aegean Hercules Milas, “Perception of Conflict: Greeks and Turks in each other’s mirrors,” in In the Long Shadow of Europe Greeks and Turks in the area of Post-Naitonalism, eds. Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Kerem Öktem (Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nihoff Publishers, 2009), pp. 95-114.
14) Human dimension Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger, London: Granta Books, 2006. Louis de Berniers, Birds Without Wings, London: Vintage Books, 2005.
15) Final Exam
16) Final Exam

Sources

Course Notes: Speros Vryonis, “The Decline of Byzantine Civilization in Asia Minor, Eleventh-Fifteenth century.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 29 (1975), pp. 351-356. Halil İnalcık, “The Rise of the Turcoman Maritime Principalities in Anatolia, Byzantium and Crusades,” Byzantinische Forschungen, Adolf M. Hakker, Walter E. Kaegi. Necmi Ülker, “İzmir from the End of the Byzantine Ear to the Times of the Turkish Republic”, in İzmir, İstanbul, 1993, pp. 76-80. Halil İnalcık, “The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans,” in Halil İnalcık, Essays in Ottoman History (Istanbul: Eren Press, 1998). Daniel Goffman, İzmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650, Seatle and London, University of Washington Press, 1990, chapter 1. İdris Bostan, “The Establishment of the Province of Cezayir-i Bahr-ı Sefid,” in Halcyon Days in Crete IV, The Kapudan Pasha His Office and His Domain, ed. Elizabeth Zachariadou (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2002), 240-51. Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 171-18. Joseph Stalin, “The nation,” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 18-21. Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities,” in John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 89-96. Üner Turgay, “Nation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 3, 1995, pp. 232-235. Anthony Smith, Anthony D. Smith’s opening Statement: Nations and their pasts,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, 358-365. Ernest Gellner’s Reply: ‘Do Nations have navels?’” in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, pp. 371-378. Eric Hobsbawn, “The Opiate Ethnicity,” Alphabet City, No. 2, 1992, pp. 8-11. Will Lymlicka, “Misunderstanding nationalism” in Theorizing Nationalism, ed. Roger Beiner, Albany, NY: State Univ of New York Press, 1999, pp. 131-141 Bernard Yack, “The Myth of civic nationalism,” National Pact, July 1, 2002, (2 pages) Louay Safi, “Nationalism and the multinational state,” The American Journal of Islamic Social sciences, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1992. Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Modernity, Emlightenment, Westernization” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 2, 15-41. Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 3 & 4. Reşat Kasaba, “The Enlightenment, Greek Civilization and The Ottoman Empire,” The Journal of Historical Sociology, 16, no. 1, March 2003, 1-21. Reşat Kasaba, “Dreams of Empires, Dreams of Nations” in Empire to nation: historical perspectives on the making of the modern world, eds. Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. Gregory Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture Inventing National Literature [Gecikmiş Modernlik ve Estetik Kültür, Milli Edebiyatın İcat Edilişi] The Regents of University of Minnesota, 1991, chapter 2. Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992, chapter 3.
References: Reşat Kasaba, “İzmir,” Review, XVI, 4, Fall, 1993, pp. 387-410. Daniel Goffman, “İzmir From Village to Colonial Port City” The Ottoman City Between East and West, Aleppo, İzmir, and Istanbul, eds. Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Masters, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Elena Frangakis Syrett, “The Economic Activities of the Greek Community of İzmir in the Second half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism, 1999, eds. Charles Issawi, Dimitri Gondicas, The Darwin Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1999, pp. 17-44. Sibel Zandi Sayek, “Orchestrating Difference, Performing Identity: Urban Space and Public Rituals in Nineteenth Century İzmir,” Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment, ed. Nezar Al Sayyad, Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001 Ziya Gökalp, “What is Turkism? And “Turkism and Turanism” in The Principle of Turkism, translated and annotated by Robert Devereux, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968, 12-21. David Kushner, The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, London: Frank Cass, 1977, introduction, 1-19. Soner Çağaptay, Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey, Who is a Turk? (London and New York: Routledge), chapter 3. Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Past, Memory, History” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 4, 77-101 Sia Anagnastopoulou, “İzmir’s ‘National Historical Mission’” The Passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Nation States, A Long and Difficult Process: The Greek Case, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2004, pp. 75-101. “İzmir 1922: A Port City Unravels,” Culture and Modernity from Meditarrenean and to The Indian Ocean, eds. Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Christopher Alan Bayly, New York: Colombia University Press, 2002, pp. 205-229.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments 1 % 20
Presentation % 0
Project 1 % 10
Seminar % 0
Midterms 1 % 30
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final 1 % 30
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 0 0 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 12 2 24
Presentations / Seminar 1 6 6
Project 0 0 0
Homework Assignments 1 15 15
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0
Midterms 1 8 8
Paper Submission 0
Jury 0
Final 1 10 10
Total Workload 105

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Be able to fulfill their professional career in the field of child development and education 1
2) Paying attention to children about proper and good usage of Turkish language. 1
3) Child development and children's cognitive, affective and psycho-motor development to prepare the appropriate activities. 1
4) Recognizing the relationship of society, family and child; communıcatıng effectıvely wıth chıld, havıng knowledge and skılls about chıld health and ıllnesses 1
5) Apply and practice drama,play and music activities. 1
6) To follow nutrition habbits of children 1
7) Plan and practice activities for children with special needs. 1
8) To apply science and technology education for children. 1
9) Plan and apply free time activities. 1
10) Using, preparing and maintaining equipments, materials and documents around work environment. 1
11) Have knowledge and skills about parent education 1
12) Have knowledge and skills about child health and diseases. 1