Its foundations go back to Eğitim Yüksek Okulu, which was founded in 1982. Within the Department of Basic Education, there are 2 main disciplines: Preschool Education and Primary School Education. Preschool Education program offers education services with 1 professor, 3 associate professors, 2 assistant professors, 1 lecturer, 3 research assistants and 1 project assistant.
Preschool Education program is opened to meet the need of preschool teacher in Turkey. In this program, which accepts students starting from the 1998-1999 academic year, students are provided with a four-year undergraduate education covering field education and teaching profession knowledge and skills. Our students receive internships at independent kindergartens affiliated with the Ministry of National Education within the scope of Teaching Practice 1 and 2 courses.
As of the 2011-2012 academic year, students have also started to be accepted for II. Education.

This department offers 240 ECTS credits in the field of Preschool Education degree. Graduates who successfully completed the program with established qualifications shall have a bachelor degree in Preschool Education.

First Cycle

Candidates must have a high school diploma and an eligible score from the National University Entrance Exam.

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.

To obtain bachelor´s degree in Preschool Education Program, students must successfully complete the required and elective courses (total 240 ECTS) and maintain the minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0/4.0

The main purpose of the program is to emphasize the place and importance of preschool education, to train preschool teachers who adopt creative, innovative and effective educational methods that can contribute to the dissemination and increase of quality of preschool education and have the necessary infrastructure to apply these methods.
Preschool Education program conducts a education plan to educate preschool teacher candidates. The program includes compulsory field knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, general knowledge and practicum. Moreover, students are able to take elective courses. Through contemporary methods and techniques, the program trains creative, innovative and sophisticated teachers equipped with the necessary methodology and qualifications. The graduates of this program are able to find jobs within a variety of early childhood education institutions as well as work as teachers.
Aims:
1. To raise gentle, fair, positive, creative, elite teachers, who are devoted to Ataturk’s principles and reforms, have a sense of national and universal identity, have internalized the culture of democracy, have the professional proficiency and sensibility, can think analytically and critically, have strong communication skills, and who are at peace with himself and the environment,
2. To be a department that is active both nationally and internationally, with highly qualified academic staff and excellent physical infrastructure,
3. To create an education environment where the professional knowledge is updated constantly,
4. To conduct basic, applied and original scientific research and organize scientific activities.