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The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey (2006) is a Stanford University Press book by anthropologist Sam Kaplan about influences on Turkey's educational curriculum, based on fieldwork in the village of Yayla. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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