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e-ISSN: 2149-360X
PUBLISHER: GENÇ BILGE YAYINCILIK

Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists

Publication Model: Periodical Publication (March - June - September - December)

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Editor-in-Chief

Hasan Said Tortop
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Said Tortop
Genc Bilge (Young Wise) Publishing
Educational Psychology, Family Counseling, Speech Handicapped Education, Curriculum and Instration , Instructional Design, Science and Mathematics Education, Science Education, Special Education and Disabled Education, Education

Prof. Dr. Hasan Said Tortop was born and raised in İzmir, Türkiye. He graduated from the Department of Science Education at Manisa Celal Bayar University in 1998. In the same year, he began his career as a science teacher under the Ministry of National Education (MoNE). He completed his master's degree in Science Education at Celal Bayar University in 2001. In 2010, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics (Physics Education) from Süleyman Demirel University. During the last three years of his teaching career (2008–2011), he worked at a Science and Art Center for gifted students. In 2011, he was appointed to the Faculty of Education at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University (BEU). There, he founded the Special Education Research and Application Center for Gifted Children (2013), developed the Education Program for Gifted Bridge with University (EPGBU, 2013–2015), and established the Journal for the Education of Gifted Research (JGER), serving as its editor. He has led a TÜBİTAK project related to gifted students (with 5 coordinators and 3 expert trainers). He became an associate professor in Science Education in 2014. He was appointed to the Department of Special Education at Istanbul Aydın University in 2017, and later to the Department of Child Development at Istanbul Esenyurt University in 2020. To date, he has supervised 30 theses. He earned a second bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Anadolu University Open Education Faculty in 2020. In October 2023, he completed his second Ph.D. in Disability Studies (Special Education) at Trakya University. He has published 19 books and over 100 national and international articles. He currently serves as executive editor of two academic journals related to gifted education (Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists and Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity) and teaches as a visiting scholar at various universities. His areas of interest include science education, gifted education, talent development, and special education.  E-mail: hasansaidfen@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-0899-4033 Web: https://hasansaidtortop.com GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MqAQWXsAAAAJ&hl=tr

Academiaedu: https://independent.academia.edu/HTORTOP ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasan-Tortop-2 

Advisory Board

Hanna David
Prof. Dr. Hanna David
Tel Aviv University (emeritus)
Special Talented Education, Educational Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Child Development Education
Michael Shaughnessy
Prof. Dr. Michael Shaughnessy
EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY
Classroom Education, Adult Education, Lifelong learning, Curriculum Evaluation in Education

Editors/Section Editors

Ahmet Temel
Dr. Ahmet Temel
T.C. MİLLİ EĞİTİM BAKANLIĞI
Physical Training and Sports Pedagogy, Sociology of Sports, Physical Training and Sports

I graduated from Cumhuriyet University's Physical Education and Sports Teaching Department in 2014 and started working as a physical education teacher that same year. I completed my master's degree in 2018 at Cumhuriyet University's Institute of Health Sciences with my thesis titled "Teacher Opinions Regarding the Realization of Learning Outcomes in the Primary School Games and Physical Activities Curriculum." Since 2018, I have been a member of the Turkish Weightlifting Federation's Education Board. I completed my doctorate in 2022 at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University with my thesis titled "Examination of Middle School Students' Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Physical Education and Sports." I have been working in Eskil, Aksaray since 2021. Since 2023, under the auspices of the District Governorship, I have been regularly running the "Living My Values ​​Through Traditional Games" project every year.

My areas of interest are sports education, values ​​education, weightlifting, and traditional games.
 

Hasan Tınmaz
Dr. Hasan Tınmaz
Woosong University
Instructional Design, Education

Hasan Tinmaz completed his undergraduate studies at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkiye) in the Faculty of Education, Computer Education Department in 2001, he graduated from the same university's Graduate Program in Curriculum and Instruction in 2004. Having completed his doctoral studies with his thesis on the uses, gratification and integration of social media in Middle East Technical University, Computer Education and Instructional Technologies program, he still works as an Assist. Professor in AI & Big Data department of Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University (Daejeon, South Korea). His research areas are social media, educational technology, curriculum and instruction design, technology management, psychological and sociological issues in technology, technology planning, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse. 

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Prof. Dr. Gillian Roehrig
University of Minnesota
STEM Education

Professor of Science Education, Associate Director of STEM Education Center, her research and teaching interests are centered on understanding how teachers translate national and state standards into teaching events and curriculum in their classrooms. Teachers’ knowledge and beliefs about teaching and learning directly influence the specific teaching practices implemented by teachers. Of particular interest is how teachers, from preservice through induction and into the inservice years, represent “science as inquiry” in their teaching and how different induction and professional development programs can influence teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and classroom practices.

In addition, with the current national and state focus on K-12 engineering, my work focuses on STEM integration. This includes teacher professional development and curriculum development to prepare teachers for integrating engineering into their science classrooms.

Research interests

STEM Integration; Teacher Professional Development; Teacher Induction

Awards and honors
Outstanding Faculty Award, Council of Graduate Students, 2010
Institute on the Environment Resident Fellow
Award IV: Innovations in Teaching Science Teachers, Association for Science Teacher Education, 2014
Outstanding Mentor Award, Association for Science Teacher Education, 2013
Fatma Erdoğan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Erdoğan
FIRAT UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Mathematics Education, Education, Special Talented Education

ERDOĞAN completed her master's degree in Mathematics Education at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in 2007, and her doctorate degree in Mathematics Education at Marmara University in 2013. Since 2017, Dr. Erdoğan has been working as a faculty member at Fırat University, Faculty of Education, Mathematics Education Department. Her scientific and research interests include collaborative learning, metacognition, inclusive mathematics education, higher-order thinking skills, problem-solving, and problem-posing. 

Gökhan Ilgaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökhan Ilgaz
TRAKYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Curriculum Development in Education, In-Service Training, Curriculum Evaluation in Education, Curriculum and Instration

Born in Edirne in 1983, he completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Edirne before beginning his higher education at Trakya University Faculty of Education in 2000. After completing his undergraduate studies in 2004, Ilgaz began his master's studies that same year and was accepted into the doctoral program in 2008. Following the completion of his doctorate, he began working as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Education, Trakya University, in 2012. He was promoted to associate professor in 2020. Between 2019 and 2024, he served as the Director of the Trakya University Institute of Roman Language and Culture Studies. Currently, he has held the position of Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Education, Trakya University, since 2014, and the position of Head of the Division of Curriculum and Instruction since 2018. Ilgaz's academic work primarily focuses on the development and evaluation of educational programs, teacher training, the analysis of large-scale education datasets (PISA, ICILS, ICCS, etc.), social-emotional learning, digital literacy, and the impact of educational policies on curricula. His research particularly emphasises the adaptation of educational programs to different contexts, the effects of teacher characteristics on student achievement, and the contributions of international educational research to educational policies.

Mojca Gabrıjelcıc
Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators, Early Childhood Education, Inclusive Education, Curriculum Development in Education, Classroom Education

Associate Professor PhD, Mojca Kukanja Gabrijelčič, Director of Center of Giftedness and Creativity, University of Primorska, Faculty of Education. In the field of research, she is mainly concerned with the development of didactics; studies the design of curricula and teaching materials for the social sciences and alternative didactic strategies for teaching in higher education. In addition to didactics, her longterm research is directed towards gifted and talented students, finding (identifying) gifted students in primary school, in history classes and discovering gifted children in preschool, developing didactic strategies for working with the gifted and talent children. Her important contribution in the field of gifted education is mainly in the measurement tool, as she was the first in Slovenia to create an assessment scale for discovering gifted students in history and also for gifted preschoolers. ORCID: 0000-0003-0682-613X
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mojca-Kukanja-Gabrijelcic

Albert Ziegler
Prof. Dr. Albert Ziegler
Alexander-University Erlangen
Special Talented Education

Albert Ziegler, PhD, is Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Research on Excellence at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. He is the Founding Director of the Statewide Counseling and Research Center for the Gifted. He has published approximately 400 books, chapters and articles in the fields of talent development and educational psychology. He developed the Actiotope Model of Giftedness, which promotes a systemic conception of giftedness. In his research, his main interests are learning resources and effective learning environments, self-regulated learning, mentoring, and gifted identification. Presently, he serves as the Vice President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), and as Chairman of the European Talent Support Network (ETSN). In 2017, he was appointed Director of the World Giftedness Center in Dubai.

International Editorial Board Member

Milan Kubiatko
Dr. Milan Kubiatko
Silesian University
Science Education, Primary Education, STEM Education
Hasan Şahin Kızılcık
Prof. Dr. Hasan Şahin Kızılcık
GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, GAZİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Education, Science and Mathematics Education, Physics Education, Science Education
Polonca Serrano
Asst. Prof. Dr. Polonca Serrano
Alma Mater Europaea ECM
Education, Curriculum Development in Education, Lifelong learning, Higher Education Policies, Teacher and Student Wellbeing
Yusra Aboud
Prof. Dr. Yusra Aboud
King Faisal University
Education, Career Counseling, Informal Learning, Development of Media and Communication Education and Programs, Music Education
Ramazan Çeken
Prof. Dr. Ramazan Çeken
Aksaray Üniv. Eğitim Fakültesi
Education, Science Education, Special Talented Education, Development of Environmental Education and Programs, Primary Education
Keri Guılbault
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Keri Guılbault
Johns Hopkins University
Education, Special Talented Education, Leadership in Education, In-Service Training
Michelle Ronksley-pavia
Dr. Michelle Ronksley-Pavia
Griffith University
Philosophy of Education, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Artificial Intelligence (Other), Education, Curriculum Development in Education, Instructional Technologies, Out-of-School Learning, Psychological Foundations of Education, Classroom Education, Multi Disabled Education, Education for Autistic Children, Special Talented Education, Mental Disability Education, Autism and Spectrum Disorder Education, Special Education and Disability (Other), Higher Education Financing, Memory and Attention, People With Disability
Nur Eva
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nur Eva
Universitas Negeri Malang
Education, Child Development Education, Psychology of Religion
Barış Demir
Dr. Barış Demir
Kocaeli Üniversitesi
Education, Mathematics Education
Yousef Abd Algani
Dr. Yousef Abd Algani
The Academic Arab College for Education in Israel- Haifa.
Education, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Sciences, Topology
Angela Novak
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Angela Novak
East Carolina University
Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators, Special Talented Education, Inclusive Education
Last Update Time: March 23, 2026