1808-1924 التعليم في فلسطين أواخر العهد العثماني

Abstract

This study sheds light on the state of education in palestine at the end of the Ottoman era 1808-1924. Where education at the beginning of the 19 century was mostly religious, until the educational program was gradually developed after the education reform laws issud by the Ottoman Empire. Governement schools for Arab Muslims were also built and the study was devided into stages and the curricula were varied according to each stage, schools were spread in cities and villages and there were primary, adult and preparatory schools, and the Jerusalem brigade received the least number of schools, due to the Ottoman states interest in Jerusalem from a political point of view at the expense of the educational side, in contrast both the Acre brigade and the Nablus brigade received the construction of a large number of Ottoman Governement schools. However, the number of schools that exicted in Palestine in the late Ottoman period was not proportional to the population. Education in Palestine was not limited only to Muslim Arabs, but Christians had their own education, as well as the Jewish settlers and this is because the Ottoman state authorized non-Muslim communities to manage their own affairs and establish their own institutions, so there were many governement schools. Palestinian Arabs benefited from and studied in Christian schools, while Jewish schools were exclusively for jews.