%0 Journal Article
%T Can Progressive Education Be Translated into a Progressive Idea?: Dewey¡¯s Report on Turkish Education (1924)
%A Yasemin Alptekin
%J International Journal of Progressive Education
%D 2006
%I International Association of Educators
%X John Dewey, who visited Turkey in 1924, prepared a report on Turkish Education in which he emphasized the importance of progressive education. The report was translated into Turkish. However, the translated version does not transform the idea of ¡®progressive education,¡¯ and the concept of ¡®progressive¡¯ education has hardly been discussed as a philosophical approach in Turkish education system, instead remained to be a term that has been interpreted with different corresponding words in Turkish at different times. This paper focuses on the discrepancy between the English and Turkish versions of the term ¡°progressive¡± as a philosophy of education, and the implications Dewey¡¯s report created in teacher education along with non-progressive practices in the field of education in Turkey.
%K Progressive Education
%K Turkish Education
%K John Dewey
%U http://inased.org/ijpev2n2/alptekin.htm