Gazi University and technology education

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Gazi University and technology education

• Prof. Dr. H. Güçlü Yavuzcan
• Dr. Abdullah Togay

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General Description
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General Description

• Gazi University is one of the oldest and leading
  universities in Turkey. Gazi University aims to
  keep up with contemporary scientific and
  technological developments and contribute to the
  development of national culture. The university
  carries out its educational, cultural and social
  activities within a systematic and comprehensive
  framework.

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General Description

• Gazi University is one of the biggest
  universities in Turkey in terms of its
  effectiveness, physical capacity and the number
  of personnel and students.
• Today, the university continues its activities
  with its 25 faculties, 22 colleges and 5
  institutes. Apart from these the university has
  18 research centres.
• About 60.000 students are being educated in these
  institutions.
• The number of students per instructor is 16 and
  this is close to the world average

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General Description

• The university has faculties of Medicine,
  Dentistry, Pharmacy, Engineering and
  Architecture, Economics and Administrative,
  Science and Arts, Law, Fine Arts, Çorum Economics
  and Administrative Sciences, Çorum Engineering,
  Çorum Veterinary, Kastamonu Forestry, Kirsehir
  Agriculture, Kirsehir Science and Arts and
  Inebolu Aquaculture.
• Being the leader of the country with its
  education faculties, Gazi University has
  faculties of Industrial Arts, Gazi Education,
  Vocational Education, Technical Education,
  Commerce and Tourism, Kastamonu Education,
  Kirsehir Education. 

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Settlement

• Gazi University is centrally situated in Ankara.
• Gazi University is centrally situated in Ankara
  and geographically it is at a suitable place in
  terms of transportation.
• The university has institutions in other cities
  too. It has colleges and faculties in Çorum,
  Kastamonu and Kirsehir.
• Gazi is one of the big universities with its
  faculties from education to communication, from
  fine arts to engineering, sports to forestry,
  medicine to pharmacy, dentistry to science and
  arts, economics to technology.

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Short History

• Gazi University is one of the few universities
  whose history dates back to 1920s.
• Right after the declaration of the Turkish
  Republic, the founder of the Turkish Republic
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his friends decided to
  establish an educational institute. This resulted
  in the establishment of the 'Teacher Training
  Institute' in 1926.
• In 1929 the institute was given the name 'Gazi
  Teacher Training Institute' and continued to
  educate students under this name for many years.
  In the Academic year 1949-1950 the institution
  was given the name 'Gazi Institute of
  Education'.

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Short History

• In 1982, the institution got the name Gazi
  University together with Ankara Academy of
  Economy and Commerce, Ankara College of Technical
  Teachers, Ankara Girls' College of Technical
  Teachers and Ankara Government Academy of
  Engineering and Architecture. Actually this
  university is the continuation of the tradition
  starting with Republic with a new name.

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• As known Turkey has started to participate the
  European Ecucational programs fully as of May
  2004, by the Memorandum signed with the European
  Commission.
• For the call year 2004, Turkey was given the
  authority on for the promotion of Leonardo
  Mobility projects. For this call year Gazi
  University has proposed a total of 36 Mobility
  projects at different fields.

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• All of the projects have been approved after the
  evaluations and the University got a budget of
  approximately 900.000 for conducting these
  projects.
• In the call year 2004 the total number of
  accepted projects was 215. And Gazi University
  led the first among all Turkish Universities and
  associations in respect of the accepted
  institutional projects.

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• In the call year 2005 of the Mobility projects
  Gazi University still remained its first position
  among the Turkish Universities and organisations
  with its 11 accepted projects amounted to 400.000
  .
• Turkey has taken the opportunity to propose
  Leonardo B ve C type projects firstly for the
  call year 2005.

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• In September 2004, Gazi University has given a
  total of 8 pilot project proposals.
• Two of these projects have been invited to submit
  full proposals
• And finally one of them (this project) have been
  approved by the European Commission.
• In the call year 2005, the number of accepted
  pilot projects from Turkey is only 5.
• This is probably due to the inexperience in the
  programme.

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• Of the 5 accepted projects from Turkey, the
  highest amount of Leonardo contribution was
  awarded to PP 178 009 with a budget of 374.616 .
• In the full proposal we have anticipated the
  Leonardo contribution as 384.000 .
• The Commission experts have found all details of
  the project successfull. There was no critise
  about even the small detail of the worpackages,
  aims, partnership, valorisation etc.

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• The only small changes made to the project were
  done by the budget experts considering the
  European Commissions determined staff rates in
  the partnership countries.
• There were no other changes.
• Operational and subcontracting costs were
  accepted as it is proposed

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Gazi University in EU Programmes

• Other than Leonardo, Gazi University also
  intensifies on Erasmus programs.
• The first Erasmus student and teaching staff
  mobility programs started in the academic year
  2004-2005 (after the signature of the
  memorandum).
• In that academic year a total of 36 students have
  been sent to EU countries with the student
  mobility program.
• As well as that, 24 academic staff went to EU
  countries within the teaching staff mobility
  programs. 11 academicians form Eu countries came
  to our university within the same program.

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Faculty of Industrial Arts Education
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Background

• The nucleus of the faculty is Industrial Arts
  Teacher Training College established by the
  Ministry of Education in 1974. The Industrial
  Arts Teachers training college was composed of
  three departments Department of Home Economy,
  Department of Work and Technical Training and
  Department of Business Education. The College
  kept that structure up to 1982.
• The College became part of the Faculty of
  Vocational Education in 1982 as the Department of
  Technology Education. In 1988, Computer Education
  program was added to the available programs.
  Finally, the faculty has been restructured with
  its new departments in 1992 and named as the
  Faculty of Industrial Arts Education. The Faculty
  has the qualification of being the only
  institution providing Technology Teacher in the
  country.

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Academic Structure

• The academic structure comprised of five
  departments and various divisions belonging to
  the departments. The Departments are as follows
• Department of Industrial Technology Education
• Department of Computer Education
• Department of Business Education
• Department of Educational Sciences
• Department of Family and Consumer Science
  Education

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Academic Structure

• Among these departments, Dept. of Industrial
  Technology Education, Dept. of Computer
  Education, Dept. of Family and Consumer Science
  Education,, and Dept. of Business Education have
  their own undergraduate programs towards training
  teachers in the related fields.
• The Department of Educational Sciences does not
  have any special undergraduate program and
  responsible for the lectures of teacher training
  (pedagogy formation) courses.

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Mission

• Industrial Arts Education (The new name is
  Technology Education) is the type of education
  which helps students at primary level find out
  their interests and attitudes, prepares them for
  a profession through introduction of profession
  and steers which will lead to a choice of
  profession rationally.
• The basic aim of The Faculty of Industrial Arts
  of Education is to educate teachers for the
  Technology Education and ICT course conducted as
  compulsory at the second level of primary school
  education and the optional courses on computer,
  agriculture, local handcrafts and technology.
  Previously, the technology education courses at
  the secondary schools was named as Work Education
  which involved Work and Techniques, Commerce,
  Home Economy and Agriculture.

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Facilities

• There are 14 workshops for Woodworks, Metalworks,
  Electricity, Electronics, Ceramics, Design, Power
  and Energy, Graphics, Serigraphy, Press,
  Clothing, Textile Handcrafts, Nutrition and 5
  laboratories are active for teaching and learning
  activities.
• There are 8 professors, 4 associate professors,
  17 assistant professors, 17 lecturers, 19
  research assistants at the Faculty.

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Employment Opportunities

• Our faculty has educated approximately 3.540
  technology education teachers up to now for the
  Ministry of National Education according to the
  criteria set for our aim.
• Choice of profession has become more important
  with starting of the eight-year continuous
  obligatory Primary Education in 1997. This caused
  a rapid increase in the demand for our graduates.
  
• The number of technology education teacher
  demand, announced for the year 2001 by the
  Ministry of National Education is 25791.
• Almost all graduates of our faculty, can be
  assigned upon request and their score in the
  State Staff Selection Exam and mostly they do
  not experience any employment problems.
• This can be observed in the increasing grades of
  the students preferring our faculty. Our
  graduates can be also employed by some state
  institutions and private companies.

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EU Programmes

• Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Measure
• 4 projects in the call year 2004.
• Name 'Continuing Technology Education as Work
  Based Learning Through New Methods and ICT' 30
  Student placementBudget76.500
• Name 'Improving Achivement and Quality in
  Technology Education- Training Through New
  Methods and ICT'12 ExchangeBudget 42.000
• Name Improving the Mechatronics Skills of
  Technology Education Students'10 Student
  placement Budget 24.400
• Name 'Improving Competiences in Mechantronics
  Education and Access to ICT'3 ExchangeBudget
  13.500
• One project in the call year 2005.

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EU Programmes

• Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Measure
• 1 project in the call year 2005
• Name New Approaches in Technology
  Training-Development and Integration of European
  Modules in Technology Education
• Budget 374.616
• Erasmus Student Mobility
• 2 student mobility in the academic year 2004-2005
• Erasmus teaching staff mobility
• 3 teaching staff mobility in the academic year
  2004-2005
• 2 incoming teaching staff mobility in the
  academic year 2004-2005

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EU Programmes

• Bilateral agreements within Erasmus
• University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
• University of Flensburg (Germany)
• All of these European projects are conducted by
  the Department of Technology Education

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Department of Technology Education

• The Industrial Technology Education program is
  designed to prepare students for a teaching
  career mainly in secondary schools. The
  transformation to technology education continues
  to provide all students with basic knowledge and
  skills needed for modern technology.
• Students are prepared to teach in the following
  areas communication, construction,
  manufacturing, energy and transportation.
  Technology Education is a hands-on program using
  an investigative, design-and-construct, problem
  solving approach to teaching. Students study the
  resources, systems, and products of technology.
  The curriculum is designed to allow students to
  teach in a laboratory setting using modern
  technological tools.

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General Information

• There is a very high demand for Technology
  Education teachers nationwide. Thus, Gazi
  University Dept. of Industrial Technology
  Education provides graduates for this demand
  across the country. Opportunities abound for
  students considering a Technology Education
  teaching career.
• Beyond this, the industrial technology education
  curriculum prepares teachers of technology and
  industrial subjects for the elementary, middle,
  and senior high school, and teachers of
  industrial-vocational subjects for the senior
  high and colleges. It offers a broad-based
  description of modern industry and technology,
  and the opportunity to acquire specialized
  competencies in a number of technical, industrial
  and/or vocational areas.

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General Information

• Exciting changes are taking place in the world
  around us. We must be prepared to meet the
  challenge of providing students with an
  understanding of technology and its role in our
  culture. Technological literacy encompasses the
  ability to apply technology, understand issues
  raised by technology, and appreciate the
  significance of technology. The focus of the
  field is to engage learners with the actions used
  in developing, producing and assessing
  technology, and the concepts where technology is
  developed and used.

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General Information

• The objective of the industrial technology
  education program is to engage learners in
  activities related to contemporary industrial
  practices, procedures, and processes. Learners
  may use the knowledge and skills of industrial
  technology as a foundation for participation in
  instructional programs that prepares them for
  specific technical careers.

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Program description

• The Industrial Technology Education Program is
  the first and unique B.S. program to be
  established at Gazi University for more than 20
  years ago.
• Holding curriculum at B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.
  levels, the Department of Industrial Technology
  Education provides common concepts of Industrial
  Technology Education and relevant practices as
  well as required subjects for the teaching
  career. Within this framework, students are
  trained in multi-discipline conformity.

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Program description

• Practices are supported by the workshop
  facilities of power and energy, woodworks, metal
  works, electrics, electronics, graphics, pres,
  ceramics and serigraphy workshops as well as
  computer labs. Apart from these, students can
  improve their skills and experience towards a
  specific field by means of industrial design and
  electives.
• Academic staff includes 1 professor, 1 associate
  professor, 3 assistant professors, 7 lecturers
  and 3 research assistants.

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Program description

• The Department offers a 4 year bachelors
  program. During this period, besides the general
  knowledge and educational formation courses, the
  main field courses are given in four different
  divisions as mentioned below
• Division of Industrial Material Technology
  Education
• Division of Energy and Transport Technology
  Education
• Division of Electrics-Electronics and
  Telecommunication Education
• Division of Drafting and Computer Aided Design
  Education

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Program description

• The Industrial Material Technology involves the
  basic information about industrial manufacturing.
  Since one of the significant functions of
  technology education includes industrial
  manufacturing, recognizing and processing of
  industrial materials are of importance. The
  Industrial Material Technology Education Division
  examines the standards, processing methods and
  behavioral characteristics of industrial
  materials during the development and processing
  periods. Plastic materials, metals, wood
  materials, composite materials, glass and ceramic
  materials are included in the subject of this
  division. As well as that, material selection,
  process, determination of appropriate
  construction and quality control could be listed
  in the subject area of this division.

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Program description

• The Energy and Transport Technology Education
  Division addresses the interdisciplinary
  education of all forms of energy available
  throughout the world and transportation
  technology. Development of energy resources,
  processing energy, converting, transmitting and
  conserving forms of energy, processing,
  transmitting and controlling information,
  developing and conserving biological resources
  are the main concepts of this division. In
  addition Energy and transport technology
  education involves creative problem-solving
  processes such as identifying energy technology
  related problems to be resolved and planning and
  designing of energy systems. Within this program
  renewable energy resources such as solar energy,
  wind energy, biomass energy, geothermal energy
  and hydraulic energy are given a special
  emphasis.

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Employment Opportunities

• Most graduates of this program are employed as
  teacher at the secondary and the post-secondary
  level schools. As there is a great demand for
  technology teacher within the Ministry of
  Education, almost all graduates could be assigned
  as Technology Teacher, Industrial Technology
  Teacher and Work and Technique Education Teacher
  in secondary schools, post-secondary schools and
  vocational schools after the completion of the
  program. The flexibility of the program opens the
  doors of many other occupational opportunities
  such as professional positions in business and
  industry. Generally, graduates utilize their
  educational and technical expertise for the
  interdisciplinary professions in industry.

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