In the 2020-2021 academic year, Uludağ University Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Basic Education, Preschool Education Doctorate Program has been opened and started to accept students. Preschool Education Department offers education and training services with 1 professor, 3 associate professors, 2 assistant professors, 1 lecturer, 3 research assistants, and 1 project assistant.

In this program, if the 240 ECTS credits program is successfully completed and the program qualifications are achieved, a PhD degree in the Department of Preschool Education in the Department of Basic Education is awarded.

Third Cycle

To have a master´s degree from the fields specified in the call; To have the score specified in the call from the Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Entrance Exam (ALES); To provide the foreign language proficiency requirement specified in the call.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

Students who take at least 24 credits (equivalent to 240 ECTS) from the courses in the graduate programs of the program or in other related departments, who successfully complete all of them, who get at least 75 of the 100 weighted grade point average, who pass the doctoral candidacy exam, who defend the dissertation proposal and the dissertation successfully in front of the jury will be awarded with a doctorate degree in Preschool Education.

The aim of the Preschool Education Doctorate Program is to raise students who have the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and experience to do education, training and advanced scientific researches, who think critically and scientifically, who have contemporary and democratic values, who advocate for children´s rights, who appreciate differences, who are creative, willing to learn lifelong, discipline, who are open to international and multi-discipline cooperation, who act with the awareness of social responsibility towards the social and ecological environment they live in, who have high self-confidence, who have the competence to follow scientific research methods and innovations in their field on a national and international scale, who have an ethical stance, who are well-equipped in the field of preschool education, and who give importance to their professional development.
Goals
1. To raise well-trained and well-equipped preschool teachers and lecturers at national and international level.
2. To become an effective department at national and international level with a strong academic staff and completed physical infrastructure.
3. To create an education and training environment where professional knowledge is constantly updated according to the needs of the current situations.
4. To encourage scientific, socio-cultural and educational activities to be carried out jointly by teaching staff and students and to increase these activities.
5. To ensure the continuity of this by creating a learning environment dominated by discussion, questioning and sharing.
6. To ensure that the courses conducted at the postgraduate level comply with the developments in the national and international literature.