Emergence, Development and Supervısıon Actıvıtıes of Foreıgn Schools in Turkey

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This study aims to descriptively analyse emergence and development of foreign schools founded in Turkey and supervision studies carried out to regulate these schools. The focus of the research is comprised of the pre-republican period when the foreign schools first appeared and grew, the period till 1960s which consists of the supervision activities of this schools, the period between 1960-1980 during which the foreign schools completed their transformation and started to take their present shape and the efforts of supervising the schools during these periods. Utilization of written documents, namely document analysis has been used as the data collection tool in this study designed by descriptive method. The findings of the study show that the number of the schools founded on Ottoman’s land by countries like America, England, France, Austria, German, Italy, Bulgaria and Iran is determined as almost 600 by the government. However, it is considered that the number of unlicensed foreign schools which cannot be identified is far more than the determined one above. The foreign schools emerging as an action tool of missionaries and imperialism in 19th were firstly able to draw attention of the society from the point of science and language education ignoring religious and national opinions. Nevertheless, the matter of foreign schools’ education which had never been supervised in Ottoman period was approached elaborately in Republican period. Some of the schools closed on their own while some of them were closed by the government as they violate the rules according to regular supervision and control mechanism in Republican period.