@article{2018,title={A RESEARCH ON EDUCATION ACTIVITIES, COMPETITIONS, DISCUSSION AND SUNDAY SPEECHES THAT KONYA FOLK HOUSE WAS ORGANIZED},abstractNode={On February 19,1932 Konya Communıty Center which was established as one of the first Community Center started educational activities beside its other activities as in Konya cultural life. These educational activities were organised as conferances, courses, competitions , debates and Sunday speeches. The competitions organized by Konya Community Center aimed to draw attention to young people and to support talented young people. The competitions which were organised in the field of music, art and literature were sometimes seperatedly sometimes together. Debates were aimed to improve the cultural life of town and to provide the contribution of cultural enviroment. Mostly in debates subjects prefered that were related with the principal of republic, education, social life. Sunday speeches, which was one of the other activities of community center aimed not only the young people but also whole people in town and the speeches which were done in varıous subjects purposed to the increase of the knowledge, manners, and culture of the people. These speeches were done at the tea houses by the way it was aimed the education of the people who didn’t take part in the conferance. The speeches mostly about legal, health, history, agriculture and love of country. The context of the competition, debate and Sunday speech took part in the press. The Community House announcements were took part in Konya press. Beside this, news about the course were published and sometimes these course activities were the subjects of the articles in the press. In this study the courses were examined by qualitative research method and the announcements, news, and the articles published in newspapers and magazines about the courses were taken as basis.},author={Mustafa ÖZCAN-& Gülsün KOÇER},year={2018},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}