Message
from the Chair
Welcome
to the Department of Educational Sciences at the Middle East
Technical University. Our department was first established back in
the 1960s as part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences to provide
teaching certification courses to students who wanted to be teacher
when they graduated from their respective programs. In 1974, five
undergraduate programs were opened within our department to train
teachers in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology
and Social Sciences. In 1982, with the establishment of Faculty of
Education in our university, our department became the first
department in this new and youngest faculty of our university. In
1984, an undergraduate program in the field of Guidance and
Psychological Counseling was opened in our department, and graduated
hundreds of well-trained guidance counselors until 2000. With the
new mission to emphasize graduate programs more, the department
stopped accepting students for the Guidance and Psychological
Counseling Program at the undergraduate level in 1996.
Graduate programs in educational sciences received first students in
1983. Right now, we have master’s and doctoral programs in the
fields of Curriculum and Instruction, Guidance and Psychological
Counseling, and Educational Administration and Planning. In addition,
a non-thesis practitioner-oriented masters’ program in the field of
human resources, namely Human Resources Development in Education,
was opened in 2001, and every year around 20 candidates either
working in human resources area or seeking for a career in this
field are accepted to this program. In addition to seven different
graduate level programs, we offer teaching certification courses
(e.g. Introduction to Education, Educational Psychology, Classroom
Management, Guidance) to all teacher training programs of Faculty of
Education at the undergraduate level. We also provide regular
teaching skills courses to research assistants in our university
seeking to be a university instructor in the future.
Our department has been very active in national and international
research and development projects in various fields of education. In
this respect we collaborate with the Ministry of National Education,
public and private schools, non-profit foundations and educational
institutions, universities in Turkey and abroad. The research areas
our department members are interested in range from teacher
education to curriculum evaluation, from psychological counseling to
cyber bullying, from strategic planning to change in organization.
Currently our department has 14 faculty members, 30 research
assistants and around 140 graduate students, offer around 50 courses
each semester at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Prof. Dr. Ali Yıldırım
Department Chair
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