Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education

Goal, Mission & Vision

Goal

The aim of the department is to provide students who are studying at secondary schools (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th grade) with the skills of using Turkish correctly, understanding what they read and listening, expressing themselves verbally and in writing, protecting the Turkish language, using it correctly and protecting it, at the same time to train teachers who care and academics to train these teachers. In addition, our other goal is to contribute to the field with scientific studies.

Mission

The main purpose of the department is to train Turkish teachers for the secondary school level. For this purpose, our mission is based on both native Turkish and teaching phenomena. In this direction, it is the basis of our department's mission to train teachers who have the consciousness to instill the awareness and love of mother tongue to students studying in secondary schools. The main goal of the Department is to train Turkish teachers and academicians who have the following abilities: having the responsibility and awareness of our mother tongue Turkish, comprehending Turkish with its historical and cultural process, providing the simultaneous and concurrent transmission of Turkish, using Turkish correctly in written and oral communication, recognizing the masterpieces of Turkish, using these works in language teaching, and also adopting it as a way of learning, teaching and living. It is also one of the aims of the department to train teachers and academicians who can decompose and integrate knowledge instead of carrying it as memorization, who can use it instead of storing it, who are self-confident, able to discuss, criticize, perceive itself and the world correctly, pursue their rights and responsibilities, and who are constructive, productive and educate their students with this awareness.

Vision

Turkish Education Department, in line with its mission stated above, is a department of vital and scientific importance due to its responsibility and nature. It has a purpose that spans all areas of daily life. As a department, our vision is to have Turkish teachers who respect national and universal values, who are interested in science, culture and art activities, who are in an effort to improve themselves, who can think critically and constructively, who know the subtleties of our language, and who contribute to the field by making useful studies in their field. Also our vision is to be a pioneer at national and international level by training academicians who will work in the field of Turkish education.

    Department of Turkish Education