William Mcgrew

Educating across Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This compelling book chronicles a remarkable American educational undertaking that spanned two continents and survived three wars. William McGrew recounts the challenges faced by Anatolia College's leaders and the solutions they found to achieve their goals within the often-turbulent social, religious, and political environments of their host countries. McGrew begins with Anatolia's nineteenth-century Boston-based founders, who initially hoped to bring Calvinist Christianity to the diverse peoples of the Ottoman Empire and gradually shifted their emphasis to educational goals. While seeking to enrich the lives of the inhabitants of Asia Minor and beyond from the College's campus south of the Black Sea, Protestant educators also encountered rampant ethnic strife and the loss of many students and staff. Most memorable was the pursuit on horseback across Turkey's plains by two American women to save some fifty girls otherwise destined to perish at the hands of Turks. Renewed violence following World War I forced Anatolia to relocate from Turkey to Thessaloniki, the major city of northern Greece. The book follows Anatolia over the subsequent decades as it embraced a society experiencing an often-violent trajectory, including the Nazi occupation followed by civil war. Nonetheless, the College succeeded in developing a spacious campus and in drawing able students from all parts of Greece through generous scholarships. Close collaboration between Greek and American educators in merging the Hellenic cultural legacy with the strongest features of American instruction enabled Anatolia to become today one of Greece's most outstanding institutions at both the school and college levels. Its rich history provides a unique window on the American missionary movement, the Armenian genocides, the Greek-Turkish conflict, two world wars and ongoing achievements in international education through the prism of the survival and growth of an American college caught in near-perpetual upheaval.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442243477
• Artikelnr.: 42712379

Autorenporträt

William McGrew was president of Anatolia College from 1974 to 1999, and subsequently of the American Farm School, also in Thessaloniki, from 2005 to 2009. Earlier he served as a U.S. diplomat with assignments in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus. McGrew holds a PhD in Greek and Modern European History. His previous publications include Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-1881.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John H. Clymer
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by John O. Iatrides
Chapter One: The American Missionary Movement in Turkey and the Founding of
Anatolia College (1810-1886)
Chapter Two: Identity and Survival: Anatolia's First Decade (1886-1895)
Chapter Three: Anatolia's Flowering in Turkey: An International Christian
College (1896-1914)
Chapter Four: The Great War and Its Aftermath: Tragedies and Transitions
(1914-1923)
Chapter Five: New Beginnings in Thessaloniki, Greece (1923-1924)
Chapter Six: Rebuilding Anatolia in Greece: The Interwar Years (1924-1940)
Chapter Seven: Anatolia's Third Wartime Interruption (1940-1945)
Chapter Eight: Anatolia Renewed: From Civil War to a Brighter Era
(1945-1958)
Chapter Nine: Through Prosperity and Dictatorship (1958-1974)
Chapter Ten: Fighting for Identity and Ideals (1974-1999)
Chapter Eleven: Anatolia Returns to Higher Education (1981-1999)
Epilogue (1999-2014)
Appendix A Major Anatolia College Dates
Appendix B Anatolia College Hymn
Selected Bibliography
Index