Abstract:

Teacher training is of the most important of the issues of historians in general and in particular for Turkish educational historians, it is at the forefront of their researches and studies. The renewal movements that begun to be seen at several levels of the Ottoman State together with Tanzimat led to bring forward ideas and practices in teacher education and "teacher" understanding. On the basis of accepting education as a science from the Tanzimat period, the intellectuals and the educators started to focus on various problems such as teaching methods, literacy teaching, application of new teaching methods, criticized booked based teaching and oral presentation, and they are in favor of  abandonment of memorization-based teaching and adoption of the notion that there is no place for beating in teaching, demanded that reading and writing instruction should be given as equal importance and preferred to switching from individual instruction, branch system to class system. Ziver Bey was one of the pioneer educators who expressed his views on these issues with his studies. In this study, Ziver Bey's teaching profession and his views on this profession have been tried to be used by drawing on first and secondary sources.

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