Preschool education in the second Constitutional Monarchy period (1908-1918)

The aim of this study is to underline the historical process in terms of preparation, practise and attitudes of the Ottoman Empire at the 2nd Meşrutiyet period about the pre-school educationThe process of pre-school education that is critical period in terms of growing up an education. Has been studied at the 2nd Meşrutiyet period which is accepted as crucial and one of the turning points of the Ottoman History.The 2nd Meşrutiyet period which is accepted as the modern pre-shool education in the Ottoman. This education level points out how the so-called pioneers, formal activities, minority and foreigner activities take place during this period.The sources of this research consist of the formal documentaries, published works at the 2nd Meşrutiyet period by the formal authorities. These resources have been scanned mainly by Prime-ministry Ottoman Archive, Beyazıt State Library and Ankara National Library. The research text has been edited with the help of the secondary sources.According to the result taken from the sources. There were pre-school education activities which were done, performed by the minority and foreigners before the 2nd Meşrutiyet period. The first formal practices are the openings of a pre-school and a department bringing up the teachers in 1913.Since there wasn?t authorized human resources the froigner women teachers had been employeed. For pre-school and teaching to the teachers for pre-school.At this period although the pre-school education was developpedso much because of the wars. The base of the pre-school education was done with the teaching staff, programme the directorates and practise samples.