Uygun, Selçuk2025-01-272025-01-2720101302-5600https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/13924The aim of this research is to discuss M. Emin Soysal's, who worked at important positions in the period of teacher educations were increased in variety in Turk Education History, life and his effects on Village Institutes' history. He was one of the first founder managers of the Village Institutes and, was a Member of Parliament in the Village Institutes changing period. Because of this, his position, in Village Institutes"history, is worth to research. In this research, the data, based on written resources, were discussed by historical method and evaluated. In research findings, it was found that Soysal had an important position on enlightening Village Institutes. It is understood that Soysal had different expression in discussions about Village Institutes. According to him, the Institutes aimed at training well-qualified teachers who were appropriate for village. But in the Institutes, where the students numbers and quotas increased in a short period, there was backed out of the thought of aimed at training wellqualified village teachers. His relative effect, on foundation of Village Institute, was limited with Ki{dotless}zi{dotless}lçullu Village Institute. However there was Soysal's political effect, as relatively, on the arrangements which about the Institute and were made after the years of 1946.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessHistory of education; M. Emin Soysal; Teacher education; Village institutesArticle1851481612-s2.0-77955155935Q4