{"id":7815,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/salih-ceka-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:47","slug":"salih-ceka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/salih-ceka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Salih \u00c7eka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salih <\/span>Çeka<\/span>, a na<\/span>t<\/span>ional educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion ac<\/span>t<\/span>ivis<\/span>t<\/span> and democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic publicis<\/span>t<\/span>, known as a <\/span>T<\/span>eacher of <\/span>t<\/span>he P<\/span>eople, was born in Fila<\/span>t<\/span> of <\/span>Çameria<\/span>. He comple<\/span>t<\/span>ed his educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he <\/span>T<\/span>urkish secondary school (<\/span>idadije<\/span>) in his home<\/span>t<\/span>own and pursued higher s<\/span>t<\/span>udies in pedagogy in Bezanson, F<\/span>ran<\/span>c<\/span>e. <\/span>Çeka<\/span> worked as a <\/span>t<\/span>eacher a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he “Normal” School in Elbasan in 1913 and ser<\/span>ved as a general inspec<\/span>t<\/span>or in <\/span>t<\/span>he Minis<\/span>t<\/span>ry of Educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion from 1922 <\/span>t<\/span>o 1923. He was elec<\/span>t<\/span>ed a represen<\/span>t<\/span>a<\/span>t<\/span>ive of <\/span>t<\/span>he province of <\/span>Sulova<\/span> a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he Congress of <\/span>Lushnja<\/span> in 1920 and was one of <\/span>t<\/span>he ini<\/span>t<\/span>ia<\/span>t<\/span>ors of <\/span>t<\/span>he na<\/span>t<\/span>ional educa<\/span>t<\/span>ional congresses in 1922 and 1924. H<\/span>e direc<\/span>t<\/span>ed <\/span>t<\/span>he “<\/span>Revis<\/span>t<\/span>ën<\/span> Pedagogjike<\/span>” (“Pedagogical Magazine”) from Sep<\/span>t<\/span>ember 1922 <\/span>t<\/span>o July 1923, where he promo<\/span>t<\/span>ed cri<\/span>t<\/span>ical <\/span>t<\/span>hinking on educa<\/span>t<\/span>ional issues and laid <\/span>t<\/span>he founda<\/span>t<\/span>ional principles for building a na<\/span>t<\/span>ional and secular school sys<\/span>t<\/span>em in Albania. <\/span>Çe<\/span>ka<\/span> ac<\/span>t<\/span>ively par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ed in <\/span>t<\/span>he effor<\/span>t<\/span>s of Albanian democra<\/span>t<\/span>s <\/span>for <\/span>t<\/span>he poli<\/span>t<\/span>ical emancipa<\/span>t<\/span>ion of Albanian socie<\/span>t<\/span>y as a member of <\/span>t<\/span>he democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic socie<\/span>t<\/span>y “Bashkimi” (“<\/span>T<\/span>he Union”) from 1922 <\/span>t<\/span>o 1924, as well as being par<\/span>t<\/span> of <\/span>t<\/span>he elec<\/span>t<\/span>oral group “As <\/span>i<\/span> pashës<\/span>, as<\/span> i<\/span> beu<\/span>t<\/span>” (“Nei<\/span>t<\/span>her of <\/span>t<\/span>he Pasha nor of <\/span>t<\/span>he Bey”) during <\/span>t<\/span>he elec<\/span>t<\/span>ions for <\/span>t<\/span>he Cons<\/span>t<\/span>i<\/span>t<\/span>u<\/span>t<\/span>ional Assembly in 1923. He also published and direc<\/span>t<\/span>ed <\/span>t<\/span>he progressive newspaper “Ku <\/span>vemi<\/span>?” (“Where Are We Going?”) from January 12, 1924, <\/span>t<\/span>o Oc<\/span>t<\/span>ober 19, 1924. Af<\/span>t<\/span>er <\/span>t<\/span>he<\/span> failure of <\/span>t<\/span>he June 1924 Democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic Revolu<\/span>t<\/span>ion, he was assassina<\/span>t<\/span>ed in 1925. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: Salih <\/span>Çeka<\/span><\/em><\/span>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary – Vol. <\/span>1 <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kris<\/span>t<\/span>alina-KH”, <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, 2008, page 380.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© h<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>ps:\/\/sq.wikipedi<\/span>a.org\/wiki\/Salih_%C3%87eka<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Salih \u00c7eka, an activist for national education and a democratic publicist, a People’s Teacher, was born in Filat, \u00c7ameri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}