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The mission of our programme, in accordance with the regulations of Turkish National Education Basic Law, is to educate teachers qualified enough to be able to work in preschool education, having core knowledge, skill and attitude; Ataturkist, loyal to Republican Principles, and endowed with contemporary and democratic characteristics. What is more, our objective is to provide education programme gaining acceptance among contemporary, national and international Early Childhood Teaching Programmes and to educate the students for successful career. Another one of our mission is to educate graduate students, who are learning to learn lifetime, taking the continuity of development as a base, who carry out their duties effectively, research developments in social domain, financial, technological and scientific fields, serve official and private preschool educational institutions and non-governmental organizations and cooperate with them regularly. Moreover, our objective is to educate teachers having necessary background information and motivation in order to be able to improve themselves to keep up with time, having willingness and competence to be able to transfer the knowledge they acquired to the next generations by making use of all kinds of technological material. Another one of our mission is to educate teachers who are sensitive to the needs of a child, family and society seeking the best, in an endeavour to work in collaboration, who identify the problems and reach their goal. Furthermore, they should be able to raise the quality of early childhood period with the programmes that they develop, educate teachers who carry out national and international researches in an attempt to develop child and family programmes, to improve undergraduate and graduate programmes continually in compliance with social developments and change. In addition, qualified teachers should be able to put forward innovative education concerning the matters such as education of children according to their age and level of development being in harmony with the characteristics of age in which they live, the preparation of instructional programmes, the improvement of the pedagogical knowledge and skills of parents, they should be able to make use of wide range of opportunities concerning research and improvement, by enabling the students to gain active professional leadership skills.

Our vision is to raise the prestige of the Department of Early Childhood Teaching Programme to the uppermost level both nationally and internationally. Our aim is to be in such a state that is approved and favoured nationally and internationally. Additionally, our vision is to get actively involved in plans concerning extensification and improvement of preschool education and to be supportive of scientific researches. Another one of our visions, as a required by modern and democratic society, is to be a department that educates teachers aspiring to educate mentally and physically healthy teachers who can express their ideas freely, transfer basic life skills to everyday life, who are creative, inquiring, energetic, self-confident, who attach value to divergence and who are respectful of human rights and willing to learn.

This is a full time program.