Սուրիահայ կրթական գործին կուսակցականացումը սկիզբէն մինչեւ 1946
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2020
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The article focuses on the Syrian-Armenian school network as a case study, and describes the attempts to infiltrate partisan propaganda into Syrian-Armenian schools. The author notes that such attempts had become obvious as of the 1890s. Armenian parties' presence in the schools increased particularly after the restoration of the Ottoman constitution, when Henchag and Tashnag party propaganda efforts opposed each other in the school milieu. The school boards reacted strongly against this infiltration and tried to keep education separate from party influences. Interparty conflicts grew further after the armistice, during the formation of the post-Genocide Syrian-Armenian community, when Armenian schools start forming Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical as well as societal networks. First, both parties controlled the union- owned schools and established an influential presence in certain community schools. The Tashnag camp succeeded in dividing certain Evangelical and Orthodox schools, under the call of "no to denominational discrimination" and established a network of united schools.
The conflict further intensified when a number of Orthodox-run schools joined the network of schools sponsored by the AGBU and were supervised by local AGBU chapters. These chapters gradually came under the influence of the Hencahag and, to a larger extent, the Ramgavar parties. Foreign missionary schools, however, maintained a distance from party interference in their school network. The French authorities expressed distress concerning party infiltration and interparty conflict in education. As a result of these developments Armenian educational space was gradually divided into three spheres of party influence and very few maintained their independence. This situation persisted until the 1946 repatriation.
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Չոլաքեան, Յ., «Սուրիահայ կրթական գործին կուսակցականացումը սկիզբէն մինչեւ 1946», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2020, Պէյրութ, էջ 597-618