Physics Education Department

History of Department

The Physics Teaching Undergraduate Department was established in 1982 under the Faculty of Education of Selcuk University in order to meet the teacher needs of secondary education institutions. The department trained physics teachers by carrying out 4-year educational activities until 1998. With the restructuring in 1998, it trained physics teachers with a non-thesis master's degree within the scope of 5-year educational activities under the Secondary Science and Mathematics Education Department. Our department was affiliated with Necmettin Erbakan University in 2012. Since 2018, it has been continuing education as a program that trains physics teachers with a Bachelor's degree within the scope of 4-year educational activities under the Department of Mathematics and Science Education. The department is an undergraduate degree department that includes compulsory field courses, general culture courses, and teacher education courses. Theoretical courses of the department have been supported with laboratory applications. Also, our department includes practical courses such as informatics and communication skills for using and producing instructional technologies required for physics teaching as well. Physics teacher candidates graduate as qualified physics teachers with the knowledge they have gained from our department. In addition, our graduates can continue their graduate education and they can become physics teachers, scientists, and experts in public or private institutions.

Career Goals of the Physics Teaching Department

The main goal of the Physics Teaching Department is to provide pre-service physics teachers with a broad understanding of the physical principles of the universe, to enable them to gain critical thinking and quantitative reasoning skills, to think creatively and critically about scientific problems and experiments, as well as to provide pre-service teachers with research interests in their graduate education, to provide the necessary physics education in order to become a physics teacher, scientist, and specialist in public or private institutions.