This thesis analyzes the educational activities of the Ottoman Jews in a time period between the last decades of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Turkish Republic covering the reforms the new regime performed for a secular education system. The particular education society called the Alliance Isra&eacute / lite Universelle is taken as a case study with all its activities from its establishment in 1860 to the closing its last school in Turkey. The French origin AIU schools are considered with different scopes, including their impacts upon the Ottoman and Turkish education systems and interactions with the social life in each. However, in order to analyze this institution, the administration of the heterogeneous Ottoman state is required to be revised and the status of the Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire is to be overviewed. In the study, besides the AIU archival resources, mainly the first and second hand sources in the Turkish archives are used.

The number of schools and education organizations founded by churches and religious communities increased a lot since 1990, when the political situation made it possible. The dissertation reveals if its increase has been stable, or if most of the secondary church education schools have arisen in three years period just after the Velvet Revolution. Then it states the main reasons for the church schools' popularity in our country. The dissertation aims to map the numbers of church schools, focusing at the secondary schools and its branch representation and compare their branch categories representation in the education system in Slovakia. Moreover, the Czech and foreign church educational organization are introduced. The dissertation is based on the historical development of church schools and describes its present position in the regional school system. The methodology of quantitative survey - content analysis is focused on the comparison between the Czech and Slovak Republic situation within the categories of secondary school education. To reach a better understanding of the issues, the situation in other EU countries has been outlined briefly.

[pt] Na perspectiva das pesquisas que visam a problematização da relação família - escola, a presente pesquisa tem o interesse de analisar estas relações em uma escola judaica na qual o envolvimento familiar faz parte da sua estrutura. Esta investigação teve como material empírico o survey da pesquisa Processo de Produção de Qualidade de Ensino. Escola, família e cultura, do SOCED, Grupo de Pesquisa em Sociologia da Educação. O survey foi composto de três questionários: alunos, pais e professores, aplicados em 9 escolas anualmente apontadas pela imprensa entre as melhores do Rio de Janeiro. Além disso, foram feitas observações no Diretório de Pais, órgão de gestão máxima da escola e entrevistas com os coordenadores da escola judaica. Através da pesquisa foi possível estabelecer a influência do capital cultural e social nas relações família-escola, mesmo em instituições de prestígio como as do survey. Quanto à gestão de pais, observamos a separação da gestão pedagógica e da financeiro-administrativa, a primeira efetuada pelos profissionais da escola e a segunda efetuada pelos profissionais administrativos da escola com o auxílio do Diretório de Pais. Esta separação nos indica um caráter mais simbólico do que atuante do Diretório de Pais. A existência deste espaço definido de poder dos pais dá a dimensão do valor do controle da formação escolar dos seus filhos. / [en] In the perspective of the researches which aim to analyse the family-school relations, the current work has the objective to study those relations in a jewish school where the family involvement is part of the structure. This investigation had as empirical material the survey Production Process in Teaching Quality. School, Family and Culture, from SOCED, Group pf Research in Sociology of Education. The survey was composed by three distinct questionnaires: students, parents and teachers, submitted in 9 schools annually appointed by the press as Top schools in Rio de Janeiro. On top of that, physical observations were done in the board of parents who has the final responsibility to manage the school, and interviews were conducted with the coordinators of the jewish school. Through the research it was possible to establish the influence of the social and cultural capital in the family- school relations, even in prestige schools as the ones in the survey. In the terms of parents management it was noticed clear segregation of educational from financial- administrative management. The first one being conducted by the school professionals and the second one by the administrative professionals supported by the board of parents. This segregation points out more to a symbolic rather than effective participation of the board of parents. The existence of this defined space of parent´s control gives the dimension of their importance in the children school background.