DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

 

The undergraduate program of Special Education Teaching in Atatürk Faculty of Education of our university has started to accept students since 2002-2003 academic year. The aim of the Special Education Teaching program is to train teachers equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills that aim to enable individuals with special education needs to be independent, active and productive in social life. In this context, the program includes compulsory, field knowledge, special education professional knowledge, general culture and practice courses.
Students are admitted to the Special Education Teaching Undergraduate program according to the verbal score type from the undergraduate placement exam conducted by ÖSYM. In 2024, 50 students were admitted to the undergraduate program with a ranking of 3558 and a base score of 449.024.

The language of the four-year undergraduate education is Turkish. The normal education period of the undergraduate program is four years. In order to graduate, students must take all the courses in the program and complete 240 credits in total and have a GPA of at least 2.00.
Students of our department; Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Preschool Teaching and Classroom Teaching departments can receive double major and minor education. In addition, thanks to the ERASMUS program, which our university is also involved in, student mobility is provided between the students of our department and the special education departments of universities in foreign countries.

The Department of Special Education continues its education and training activities at Marmara University's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Campus, Atatürk Faculty of Education, Block A3, 1st Floor. The teaching staff of our department consists of two professors, two associate professors, one doctoral faculty member, one research assistant doctor and two research assistants.

Teacher candidates who successfully complete the program can work in schools and institutions that provide services for individuals with special needs affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. Our graduates can also work in private special education institutions, the number of which has increased in recent years. As a result of the developments in special education policies in our country in recent years, the services provided to individuals with special needs have increased. For this reason, the demand for special education teachers has increased both in public and private sectors.

In addition to undergraduate education, graduate education is also provided in our department. Under the Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Special Education, there is a Master's Program in Teaching the Mentally Handicapped with Thesis and a PhD Program in Special Education. Graduates of the Special Education Teaching undergraduate program can apply to both our department's master's program and other universities' master's programs related to special education and/or special education (Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Language and Speech Disorders, Measurement and Evaluation in Education, Classroom Teaching, Preschool Teaching, Classroom Teaching, Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration and Supervision, etc.).