The purpose of this department is to provide the students with knowledge, skills and attitude that will enable the education in the institutions of Ministry of Education, formal and non-formal education and education units of public and private institutions to be developed and teaching activities to be more effective and efficient.  In this way, the department aims to make the students specialize in the fields of curriculum development and educational technologies. Currently, the department provides the degrees of master with or without thesis and doctorate.  The graduates of the program have employment opportunities in a variety of fields. The graduates can work as curriculum development specialist and associate curriculum developer in the ministry of national education, provincial directorates of national education, private schools, curriculum development centers, assessment and evaluation centers, education departments of public institutions and organizations and armed forces. They can work as lecturers and research assistants at universities, as well.  Academic Staff 2 Professors, 3 Associate Professors, 1 Research Assistant.    

Our Mission: The mission about training specialists in  educational curriculum and instruction: To train educational curriculum and instruction specialists who have an enhanced sense of social responsibility; who internalize  and develop the values of democracy; who are  faithful to ethical values; who are secular, interrogator, researcher, productive and problem-solver; who produce knowledge about their profession and implement them; who can provide a modern and dynamic education that may be useful to their environments in any case.   The mission about the field of educational curriculum and instruction: To conduct basiz and applied researches which are original and made with a teamwork, of which standards of validity and reliability are high; which are qualified in scientific sense; which contribute to interdisciplinary, universal science and develeopment of country;  and to publish them in national and international scientific publications which accept these researches.   The mission about topics of educational sciences which society needs: Including in particular the Ministry of Education,to exchange of views with educational departments of public institutions, non-governmental organizations and private institutions and organizations dealing and to take a decisive role in determining the educational policies of these institutions;   As a program primarily preferred for education-related service requests, to examine the educational issues which institutions and organizations need and the problems which they face scientifically;   To organize a variety of scientific activities related to clarify employees in educational institutions about educational sciences and educational issues.   Our Vision: To conduct theoretical and practical researches with enriched academic staff; to train specialists in  educational curriculum and instruction who are qualified and self-renewing and who are preferred by students for post-graduate education;  to be a diviisonwhich contirbutes to steering of intercultural education, national and international educational policies.