DEPARTMENTS

    The academic structure comprised of five departments and various programs belonging to the departments passed through the Senate of Gazi University on the 8^th of January, 1993. The Departments are as follows:

•     Family Sciences and Consumer Education Department

•    Computer Education Department

•    Industrial Technology Education Department

•    Business Education Department

•    Educational Sciences Department

THE BASIC AIM

     Industrial Arts 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 them to a basic profession 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 course Work Education conducted as obligatory at second level of primary school education and the optional courses on computer, agriculture, stock-breeding and local handcrafts and technology. The course Work Education involves Work and Techniques, Commerce, Home Economy and Agriculture. Therefore, the four departments of our faculty are responsible for the training of teachers with relevant qualifications in the fields mentioned.

THE TEACHING EDUCATION

   The courses in our faculty are of three types mainly general culture, pedagogical formation and courses that belong to a specific field with the focus on workshops and laboratories. The 14 workshops for Clothing, Textile Handcrafts, Nutrition, Woodworks, Metalworks, Electricity, Electronics, Ceramics, Design, Power and Energy, Graphics, Serigraphy, Press and 5 laboratories are active for teaching and learning activities. In our faculty there are 6 professors, 5 associate professors, 17 assistant professors, 17 lecturers, 19 research assistants. The total number of students was 934 in the academic year 2002-2003.

THE JOBS AVAILABLE FOR OUR GRADUATES

    Our faculty has educated 3.217 work 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 the eight-year continuous obligatory Primary Education Law enumerated 4306 in 1997. This caused a rapid increase in the demand for our graduates. The number of teachers, announced for the year 2001 by the University of National Education is 25.791. This number is the first in the list of the teacher demands in all fields. Moreover, all graduates of our faculty can be assigned upon request and they do not experience any employment problems. This can be observed in the increasing grades of the students preferring our faculty. Our graduates are also employed by institutions of state and private sectors.