Department of Basic Education

The book titled “Early Childhood Education in the Mediterranean: Availability, Accessibility and Affordability of Services”, co-edited by Professor Mehmet Toran, a faculty member of the Department of Basic Education at the Faculty of Education, and Professor Valerie Sollars from the University of Malta, has been published by BRILL, a leading international publishing house classified in Category A.

Faculty of Education Department of Basic Education students, donated the Montessori materials they prepared within the scope of the lesson led by Head of the Department of Basic Education Assoc. Prof. Gökçe Kurt to the four kindergarten classrooms and the newly established special education classroom of Avcılar Denizköşkler Primary School.

Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Toran, one of the faculty members of the Faculty of Education, Department of Basic Education, contributed as an expert to the "Education Monitoring Report 2021: Students and Access to Education" report prepared by Initiative of Education Reform, of which our university is one of the sponsors.

IKU Faculty of Education, Department of Primary Education Preschool Education organized an e-seminar titled “Game in the Digital Age” on Monday, April 19th. Nesrin Işıkoğlu Erdoğan, a faculty member of Pamukkale University, participated as a speaker at the event moderated by Mehmet Toran; Issues such as the contribution of digital tools to gaming and learning processes in the home-school environment, qualifications and criteria in digital learning tools, and the integration of digital tools into curriculums were discussed.

The İstanbul Kültür University (İKÜ) Faculty of Education Department of Elementary Education organized the Reading Culture and Literature in Early Childhood Symposium on April 4, 2017.

The Department of Early Childhood Education held the Children and Science Symposium on Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

The Faculty of Education Department of Elementary Education organized the Lego Pedagogy Workshop on Sunday, 18th March 2018

The workshop carried out by LEGO Education Akademy Turkey’s teacher Sera Yöndem was held with the support of the Teknokta Education Consulting Company and Prof. Dr. Belma Tuğrul.