An egalitarian teacher in the social memory of Antalya: Cavit Orhan Tütengil

Abstract

In this research, the teaching period of educator, writer, and faculty member Cavit Orhan Tütengil in Antalya (Antalya High School and Aksu Village Institute) was examined using oral history, document analysis, and systematic literature review methods. Tütengil, who studied philosophy in Turkey and sociology in France, conducted the Republic of Turkey's most comprehensive sociological rural research during that period. He conducted a comprehensive village field research with his students that lasted one year and suggested that his students, all of whom would become teachers, continue their village research in the future. Tütengil, who emphasized approaching people with love to human and interest in the country throughout his life, was assassinated in an armed attack in 1979. Within the scope of the research, 6 thematic interviews were conducted, and the views of 13 people were used; his understanding of education, teacher character, and educational approach based on individual equality principles were analyzed. The data obtained show that Tütengil was one of the important practitioners of democratic education and that he especially supported the cooperative learning approach in Aksu Village Institute.