The Greek-Orthodox Schools of the Ecumenical Patriarchate through the Perspectives of Pre-modernity and Modernity

Authors : Sofia ILİADOUTACHOU

Pages : 11-38

Doi:10.56679/balkar.1140254

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Publication Date : 2022-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The present study is part of the framework delimited by the scientific discipline of “History of Education”. The aim of this paper is to describe and interpret the institutional context of the “secret schools” of the “Rum Millet” under Ottoman rule and to identify the origins of the legend of these schools being illegal and secret, as it is obvious that, although the construction and the diffusion of the legend of the “secret school” started in the beginning of the 19th century, the academic dialogue continues to be active in the present day. The paper deals with the following topics: the institutional context of the schools of the “Rum Millet” under Ottoman rule; the effects of the circumstances, created during the different periods of the Ottoman rule, on the schools’ institutional framework and their operation; typological classification of the schools of the Rum millet; the view of “secret schools” among the newly emerged Greek elite after the founding of the Greek state.
Keywords : Secret Schools

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