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  • No: 2-2 (İsmail Hakkı BALTACIOĞLU)
    Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

    İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu
    • Role: Educator, thinker, writer, Rector of Istanbul University (1933)

    • Contribution to Education:

      • Pioneer of experimental and student-centered education in Turkey.

      • Advocated the principle of “education for life”, integrating art, religion, aesthetics, and society into pedagogy.

      • Founded the journal "Yeni Adam", a major platform for educational and cultural reform.

      • Defined teaching as more than a profession – a “way of life and art”.

      • Considered one of the few intellectuals who laid the philosophical foundations of modern Turkish education.

  • No: 2-1 (İsmail Hakkı TONGUÇ)
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)

    İsmail Hakkı Tonguç
    • Role: Director of Primary Education; leading educational theorist

    • Contribution to Education:

      • Architect of the Village Institutes’ pedagogical model.

      • Advocated learning by doing, merging education with productive labor.

      • Developed a practical, confidence-based, locally adapted educational approach.

  • No: 1-2 (Hasan Ali YÜCEL)
    Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024)

    Hasan Âli Yücel
    • Role: Minister of National Education (1938–1946)

    • Contribution to Education:

      • Initiated the Village Institutes project to train rural teachers.

      • Founded the Translation Bureau, translating world classics into Turkish.

      • Orchestrated a cultural and structural reform in Turkish education.

  • No: 1-1 (Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK)
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024)

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    • Role: Founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President

    • Contribution to Education:

      • Established a secular, egalitarian national education system.

      • Introduced the Alphabet Reform, People’s Schools (Millet Mektepleri), and coeducation.

      • Promoted science-based learning with his motto: “The truest guide in life is science.”