Giorgi Sosiashvili is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Member of Parliament of Georgia and an invited professor at Iv. At Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, a board member at the National Committee for the History of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia and the scientific committee for the study of the Georgian villages of the Patriarchate of Georgia, the Chairman of the Permanent Conference of Rectors of Regional Universities of Georgia. Research fields: Issues of historical geography of Shida Kartli; Distinguished noble families of Georgia; Russia’s colonial policy in the Caucasus; Principalities of Kartli; European travelers in Georgia; Georgian-Ossetian relations. His works have been translated and published in: English, Russian, Turkish, German, Polish, Azerbaijani, Ossetian and Armenian languages. Email: giorgisosiashvili@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0002-2406-8662 

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.

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