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The mission of Gazi University is to educate students as individuals in accordance with its core values; to contribute to society and the process of lifelong learning by producing ideas, knowledge, science, technology and services at the universal level through the pursuit of research.
Gazi University aspires to be an entrepreneurial and leading university at the international level in science, technology and arts.
As the first educational institution of the republic in training pioneer teachers and having the responsibility of being a research university, Gazi University adopts the following values;
►Pioneer in education and Research
High academic quality to promote the wilingness for learning and research to contribute to universal science and the formation of national culture,
►Quality Focused
In complience with institutional culture; to maintain continuous improvement activities in accordance with the needs of the current age in the fields of education, research and social service,
►Participator
To carry out institutional decision-making processes by ensuring internal and external stakeholder participation,
►Environmentaly Friendly
Protecting and improving the environment when developing and providing products and services,
►Inquisitive and Innovative
To seek originality in science; taking on an innovative contemporary approach that will serve the needs of society and humanity in the development of research, education and technology,
►Respectful Towards People and Society
Centered on embracing national values, opposing all forms of discrimination with a universal approach, where all opinions and thoughts can be expressed in peace and tolerance and where diversity is seen as wealth; to present the knowledge, technology and service produced for the benefit of society through internal and external stakeholders,
►Commited to Competence and Ethical Values
To focus on universal, scientific, academic and professional ethical values; to praise success, talent, work and effort; to objectively carry out selection and evaluations based on competencies,
►Institutional Belongingness
To be an institution of which its members feel honoured to be part of and that can take on this responsibility,
►Commited to its History and Culture
To have a sensitive approach towards historical, cultural, national and spiritual values,
►Awareness of Regional and Global Responsibilities
To be aware of local economic, strategic and social conditions, nearby and world issues and to produce solutions with its units and human resources.
While the Department of Curriculum and Instruction tries to effectively fulfill its responsibilities of research, generation of science and social contribution, it has undertaken to educate students as individuals who internalize democratic values, who are secular and contemporary, who are bound to Atatürk’s principles and reforms, who search, interrogate, consider, produce and correspond to the changes. It is aimed to train specialists, teachers, and academicians who are responsive to human beings, the society and nature, who comprehend the role of themselves and their professionals in social and educational development, who gain professional competence and ethical responsibility, who consider continuous development as a form of life, who adopt scientific thinking and working, who take care of public interest and think creatively and critically. The Department of Curriculum and Instruction aims to be in interaction with the other departments in Educational Sciences both scientifically and socially.
The aim is to develop learning environments in which students can discuss the issues on education, produce solutions and express themselves freely, to create an environment in which students are aware of their social responsibilities, care quality in their academic works, open to interdisciplinary approach, share knowledge, ground on academic criteria in evaluation and an environment that supports productivity and creativity, and to internalize a culture which perpetuates all. It is also aimed to organize meetings such as national and international congresses, symposiums, panels, conferences and workshops etc. in cooperation and interaction with the several sub-disciplines of Educational Sciences and also other social sciences, to perform theoretical and applied research projects and publish, to create a physical and technological environment that makes easy for the students, academic and administrative staff to access knowledge, to communicate and to interact, and to make sustainable to perform all academic and administrative activities with an honest, clear, democratic and participatory understanding.
The basic vision of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction is to perform research activities with an understanding which studies education from scientific perspective, interrogates and tries to increase the effectiveness day by day offering education and advisory services in the field. The Department has undertaken to give education in the levelst of master’s and doctoral degree as well as professional knowledge courses to the students in the other departments in the level of bachelor degree. Moreover, the faculty take charge in professional development courses and seminars. Also, it is adopted as vision that the Department addresses educational issues of the society, develops solutions, leads the policies accordingly, and shares the fund of knowledge with national and international academic community, public and private institutions and non-governmental organizations depending on right to education, equality and human rights.
The Department has an attitude in the way of taking care of students rights, acting with accountability principle, being fair and equal to the partners, respecting the diversity, giving importance to justice and merit, producing value added thanks to being innovative and open to changes, and respecting free thought.
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