THE MEDIATOR OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND NATIONAL SALVATION: CHILDREN AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES DURING THE WAR OF RESISTANCE (1931-1945)

Abstract

This thesis takes the "scientific children" as the starting point for the study of science and culture during the Fourteen Years of Resistance and focuses on the historical analysis of scientific education, publication and discourses. It aims to examine the position of this particular group of children in the political and cultural spectrum of the war period. And also the discourses and imaginative spaces they created for wartime society and culture. In this way, the tension and diversity within wartime scientific culture is interpreted.