educ

Our research assistant, Tuba Özgül-Torun, has been awarded a scholarship under the ERASMUS+ Doctoral Internship Program at METU and will carry out academic research at Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2025. During the one-month internship, she will focus on digital applications with children and families in early childhood education under the academic guidance of Prof. Dr. Ana Jorge, who has made significant contributions in this field.

The article by TED University Preschool Education Department Research Assistants Elif Naz Altaş and Tuba Özgül-Torun titled "Unlocking Cultural Treasures: Viewpoints of Preschool Teachers Working with Refugee Children on Funds of Knowledge" has been published in the International Journal of Multicultural Education, which is in the ESCI-Q1 index category.

Our research assistant, Elif Naz Altaş, has been accepted to the EERA Summer School 2025, which will be held at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany from June 2-6, 2025.

Elif Naz Altaş, a Research Assistant at the Department of Early Childhood Education at TED University, has published her article titled "Philanthropic Tendency Scale for Teachers" in Psychology in the Schools, a journal indexed in SSCI-Q3. The article explores the process of developing a scale to measure teachers' philanthropic tendencies.

This semester, our first-year pre-service teachers have begun their observations as part of the PECE 402 – School Experience I course, taught by Dr. Melike Kandemir and Dr. Funda Eda Tonga Çabuk. Following introductory and informational meetings with school administrators and teachers at TED Ankara College, they have now embarked on their observation process.

Gözde Özcan participated as a guest in the PECE406 “Visual Art Education and Material Development in Early Childhood” course conducted by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sühendan Er. Our guest shared the rhythm activities in early childhood with the prospective teachers taking the course. We thank her for her valuable contribution to our course.

Within the scope of the PECE108 "Development and learning in early childhood" course conducted by Assoc. Prof. Adile Gülşah Saranlı, Child Development Specialist Ece Pekşen Yalçın was our guest on March 5, 2025.

We thank her for her valuable sharing. 💐

Child Psychologist Neslihan Başaran was our guest on Friday, February 21, 2025, as part of the PECE108 "Development and Learning in Early Childhood" course conducted by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adile Gülşah Saranlı. We thank her. 💐

Our TEDU Early Childhood Education Program graduate, children's yoga instructor Merve Aksu, participated as a guest in the PECE406 "Visual Art Education and Material Development in Early Childhood" course conducted by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sühendan Er. Our guest shared her experiences by providing effective classroom application examples and activities that brought yoga and art together to the teacher candidates taking the course. We would like to thank her for her valuable sharing and contribution to our students' effective educational practices.

Our 4th grade prospective teachers started their practices after the introductory and informative meetings with the school administrators and teachers at “TED Ankara College” and “ABC College” schools this semester within the scope of PECE402 “Teaching Practice-2” course.