Welcome to the Department of the Elementary and Early Childhood Education News Panel 1: The Only Path: Teaching? Alumni Share Their Experiences Our alumni panel series begins with its first event: "The Only Path: Teaching? Alumni Share Their Experiences". We will be at the Faculty of Education Conference Hall on Friday, April 3. 28/03/2026 Opening: Motor Development Research Laboratory On Friday, March 13, 2026, the opening ceremony of the Motor Development Research Laboratory, established through the collaboration of the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education and… 25/03/2026 Think, Play, Act for Climate Change Under the coordination of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elif Buldu, a faculty member in our department, the project titled “Think, Play, Act for Climate Change,” which was awarded funding by TÜBİTAK 4004 Nature… 10/09/2025 read more Announcements Dissertation Defense Elif Güvelioğlu, our research assistant and doctoral student, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Designing a Disaster Education Program for Pre-service Early Childhood… 13/08/2026 Dissertation Defense Ayşenur Mumcuoğlu, our research assistant and doctoral student, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Naïve Physics Theories about Systems’ Rotational Mechanism Tasks of Preschool… 11/08/2026 Correction Regarding the Preliminary Evaluation Results for Research Assistant Recruitment in Early Childhood Education It has been identified that an inadvertent error occurred in the calculation of the scores for the preliminary evaluation results announced within the scope of the Research Assistant recruitment… 11/08/2026 read more