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Many governments in history have always wanted to educate their citizens according to their own perceptions. In the early years of the Republic, the administrators of the Republic of Turkey intended to educate citizens concurrent with the republican regime. The present study aims to investigate and reveal what kind of a citizen was desired to be educated in the first years of the Republic. From this point of view, numerous views of the administrators in the first years of the Republic were revealed and the citizenship education courses ("Musahabat-i Ahlakiye" and "Malumat-i Vataniye") which were included in the 1924 Primary Schools Program were addressed. In order for the course to be able to be evaluated in terms of aims and citizenship education, a sample book from the textbooks of "Musahabat-i Ahlakiye" and "Malumat-i Vataniye," which were taught in fourth and fifth grades in primary schools, was examined. The present study was designed with document analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods.

The present study aims to investigate the subjects of the works written on moral and citizenship education during the Tanzimat period and after and the methods considered for these courses. The other aim of this study is to demonstrate that the Ottoman educators were not unaware of the methods implemented in the lessons in today's modern education system and the education system of Ottoman was well aware of these methods. The present study was carried out by means of document analysis methods. Works and articles written with the Tanzimat period and after teaching approach and method were investigated. The approaches and methods that the Ottoman educators used in the moral and citizenship education were termed this way by reviewing their content by the researchers of this study. The results of the study demonstrated that the educators of the Ottoman Empire were well aware of the modern teaching techniques and used them in moral and citizenship education.