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Dr. Mehmet Başaran is a postdoctoral researcher at the STEM Education Center, University of Minnesota. He also serves as an Associate Professor at Gaziantep University’s Faculty of Education, specializing in Curriculum and Instruction. He completed his Ph.D. at Gaziantep University, focusing on the applicability of the STEM approach in preschool education, and holds an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction with a Teaching Certificate from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University. During his master’s, he had a short visit to the University of Cambridge for the PGCSE Secondary Mathematics program. He earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Hacettepe University.
Dr. Başaran’s research interests lie in the areas of STEM program development, teacher education, and international schools, with a particular focus on early childhood STEAM education. He has made significant contributions through his work on computational thinking, coding skills assessment, and project-based learning for preschool children. His expertise is reflected in his involvement with several prestigious journals.
He has held visiting professor positions at various universities, including Zielona Gora University in Poland, Hasan Kalyoncu University, and Jordan University, reflecting his international experience in education. Furthermore, Dr. Başaran has been actively engaged in numerous national and international research projects, securing grants from prominent organizations such as the European Union and TÜBİTAK. His ongoing projects focus on STE²AM education, the integration of digital tools in early education, and the development of innovative teaching methods.
In addition to his academic achievements, Dr. Başaran is the founder of Dünyatek Bilişim Teknoloji A.Ş., a company dedicated to information technology solutions. His numerous awards, including the 2023 Science Award from Gaziantep University and TÜBİTAK recognition, underscore his leadership in educational research and innovation.
He received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of History, Faculty of Letters at Hacettepe University in 2011. He completed his first master’s degree in 2017 and his Ph.D. in 2020 in the Department of Modern History at Gaziantep University, where he had started his graduate studies in the same year as his undergraduate graduation. During this period, he also completed a second master’s degree in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Gaziantep University, between 2013 and 2015. Between 2014 and 2021, he served as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Educational Sciences at Gaziantep University. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education, within the scope of a scientific research project supported by the TÜBİTAK National Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program. In 2024, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophical, Social, and Historical Foundations of Education at the same faculty, where he currently serves.
Dr. Eyüp Cücük’s research interests include the history of education, educational historiography, educational sciences, the history of educational policies, modernization in education, and the philosophical, social, and historical foundations of education. He has published numerous papers, articles, books, and book chapters on national and international scales in these fields. Additionally, he has taken on roles such as principal investigator, researcher, auxiliary staff, and scholar in many scientific research projects supported by national and international institutions and organizations.
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Aim & Scope
Aim
The aim of the GAUN-JES is to follow the latest developments and increases the quality of the work done in the field of education and science in Turkey; to provide an environment of equal opportunity that allows academicians working at different universities to publish academic publications; to support theoretical and research-oriented studies; to increase the quality of research and to encourage mutual sharing of national and international academic research
GAUN-JES is an open access journal that works for the free movement and dissemination of information.
Although GAUN-JES is a multidisciplinary publication to which academicians contribute to a large extent, it also encourages publications from students who are experts in their field or who do postgraduate studies.
Scope
Gaziantep University Journal of Educational Sciences publishes theoretical or applied studies within the scope of educational research. The themes involved in the journal are listed below.
- Physical Education
- Educational Philosophy
- Educational Sociology
- History of the education
- Educational Technologies
- Educational Administration
- Educational Measurement and Evaluation
- Program Development in Education
- Science and Mathematics Education
- Fine arts Education
- Pre-school Education
- Special Education
- Guidance and Psychological Counseling
- Basic Education
- Turkish and Social Studies Education
- Foreign Language Education
- Adult Education
Author Guidelines
Author Guidelines
1. The authors can download a Word file in accordance with the format of our journal by clicking on the attached file and format their articles according to the style in this file.
2. When the authors upload the article to the journal, it is assumed that they have accepted the points stated in the Editorial Policy. Also, they also do not need to upload a Copyright Transfer Form.
3. The articles that do not meet the publication and grammar rules are directly rejected.
4. Dear authors, when you submit your article to Dergipark, the author order you enter will be the same author order that will take place and cite after the acceptance of the publication. Please make your choices accordingly. GAUN-JES accepts system data; the changes requests to be made in this regard will not be accepted.
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Article publication and Ethical principles
Manuscripts should be uploaded to the system in accordance with the template containing the writing rules, without author names and information.
By uploading the manuscripts to the journal, the author;
- is considered that they have accepted that Gaziantep University Journal of Educational Sciences and Editorial Board does not have the responsibility for the content, results, information, findings and comments of each article uploaded to the journal.
- accept that the article is original and all authors has participated in the work individually; that it has not send to any other journal for publication and has not published before; that the text, figures and documents in the study do not violate the copyrights of other persons.
Extended Abstract
Since our journal is in the application process for being scanned in international indexes, it requires 750-1000 words abstract. Authors can add the extended abstracts after the article is accepted, if they wish.
Ethics Committee Approval
An Ethics Committee Approval document should be submitted for the articles to be uploaded to the journal system, if necessary. TR Index has added some items on the ethical rules to its 2020 standards.
1. Ethics Committee Approval and/or Legal/Special Permission is required for all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants through survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment and interview techniques.
2. The articles must state whether an ethical committee approval and/or legal/special permission is required or not. If these approvals are required, then it should be clearly presented from which institution, on what date and with which decision or number these approvals are obtained.
3. If the study involves the use of human or animal subjects, then it must be stated that the study has been carried out in accordance with the standards in the international declaration, guidance, etc.
About plagiarism
Each article accepted to be published in Gaziantep University Journal of Educational Sciences will be subjected to plagiarism examination before publication. The articles with an overall similarity index of greater than 15% will be returned.
Price Policy
No fee is charged from the authors for the articles submitted to our journal.
In addition, all of the articles published in our journal are subject to open access.
