Use of materials in the education system of the ottoman empire the example of the journal of: çocuk dostu

According to the understanding of education in modern ages, the design and the use of materials are important for education to reach its particular aims. In spite of this fact, we see that in our history of education, sufficient researches and practices could not be done about the manufacturing and the use of materials. The aim of this article is to contribute to the illumination of the benighted parts of the educational activities about the use of materials in the late period of the Ottoman Empire. The period after the 1908 II.Meşrutiyet-Constitutional Monarchy- is of big importance and richness in terms of magazine publishing for children. This is one of the important journals of the period to 1914, once a week, but published 13 ıssues the journal of Çocuk Dostu journal. The journal which rather aimed to appeal to the pre-school children broke grounds about using materials in education. The journal of Çocuk Dostu is of a different importance for the period in which it was published; as it contributed to the material manufacturing and thus to the development of children’s