Review of Village Institutions from the Aspect of Instructional Technology

Abstract

The Village Institutions was an educational movement that was constituted in the early 20thcentury in Turkey (Türkoğlu, 2004). Village Institutions’ main idea was to grow peasant children withlearning within work method to make them work as teachers or qualified professionals or personnel intheir village. While this unique attempt was practically applied between the years of 1940-1954, thismovement provided a significant educational, social and political change in Turkey. The majorinstructional method in these institutions was built on learning within work method which aimed to raisechildren as socially and culturally educated individuals. Within this context, this study is intended toexamine the instructional method, courses, and tools and environment of Village Institutions within theaspect of Instructional Technology. Moreover, this study seeks to provide an understanding for thecorrespondence of this method with the contemporary educational strategies and approaches.