Sivas – Yıldızeli Pamukpınar Village Institute Campus

Abstract

The appointment of Hasan Ali Yücel as the Minister of Education in 1938 was one of the important turning points in the history of education in the Republic period. One of the most fundamental reasons for this is the Village Institutes, the foundations of which were laid during the Atatürk period and which were able to be realized during the İnönü period. There are 21 Village Institute campuses in Turkey, which constitute an education network that reaches every part of the country. Pamukpınar Village Institute, which was built in the rural area of ​​Yıldızeli district in Sivas and started education in 1943, is one of the Village Institutes implemented throughout the country within the framework of the "revitalization" policy of the period. Pamukpınar Village Institute, which had an area of ​​influence in the triangle of Sivas, Erzincan and Tunceli during the period it was built, undertook the "development in education" mission of the period in these regions. Pamukpınar Village Institute is an educational complex that completed the construction process, which included students and instructors, with easy, quick and financially more modest choices using local materials and construction techniques. The aim of the research is to determine the architectural features of the buildings belonging to the Sivas-Pamukpınar Village Institute and to reveal their place in the "educational architecture" of the period. Qualitative methods were used in the research and a literature review was conducted. The research data were obtained by examining national and international articles, books, internet sources, visual sources and works related to the subject.