Kağizmanli Âşik Cemâl Hoca’da Eğitim
Theme of Education in the Works of Minstrel Cemal Hodja of Kagizman

Summary/Abstract: Minstrels are artists who educate society through their instruments and lyrics. For ages many minstrels have educated public with works of art which could be used as a course material. These works are important resources that display education philosophy, life style of society and their expectations of the posterity. Therefore, poetry in the style of minstrels are needed to be analyzed in the way of their reflections on the perspective of society on education and their influences on society. In this research, Minstrel Cemal Hoca of Kagizman who lived in 19th and 20th centuries, his education life, the attention he paid on education and his approach to education elements which are appeared in the poems are studied. The methods of descriptive analysis and document review are used together in this study that is figured in a mixed model. Educative elements that took place in the poems of Hodja Cemal are heaped up in four main subjects: Religion and mysticism education, public morality education, education of minstrel traditions and Turkish language education. In the last part of the study, results and suggestions that are figured through educative insight of Hodja Cemal and poetry world, are included.

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