The objectives of the Division of Painting-Crafts Education are to run a four-year undergraduate program based on contemporary teacher training approaches, to equip teacher candidates with contemporary assessment and evaluation approaches, to enable them to design learning environments by means of instructional technologies, and to familiarize them with various special teaching methods and techniques in their teaching along with new developments and innovations in their field.Established as Painting-Crafts Department as a part of Izmir Institute of Education for girls. Institution was turned into Izmir (Buca) High School of Teaching in 1978 and Buca Faculty of Education of Dokuz Eylul University in 1982. Department has continued its program till 1998, as a result of restructuring of the faculty in 1998, it was integrated into the Department of Fine Arts Education as a division.
Graduates enjoy productive careers in public and private schools and courses run by the Ministry of National Education as teachers and in museums, libraries and art galleries as researchers and senior advisers and in many other areas of the public service as civil servants. Can work in graphic and advertisement agencies, printing presses and factories, medias like newspaper, magazine, production and publication firms and televisions as designer or operators.
The students must complete 4 years of study acquiring 240 ECTS credits. The degree is awarded to students who have successfully completed all courses in the curriculum and have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.00/4.00 and have got no failing grades.
High school diploma, a predetermined minimum grade from the nation-wide Student Selection Examination, being in the first thirty five in the two leveled elimination exam based on skills of drawing and imagination is requiring for acceptance.
Mission and Vision
Our mission as the Department of Painting-Crafts Education; for our country to take its place among modern countries; In line with the general objectives of Turkish National Education; To train democratic, intellectual individuals who are fully committed to Atatürk’s Principles and Revolutions, who know their rights and responsibilities, who have advanced social awareness, who protect their social and cultural values, who have the necessary professional equipment, who are sensitive to artistic activities, who can think critically and creatively, and who are competent in their fields.
Our vision as the Department; To play an active role in educational and artistic activities at national and international level, to be an effective and interactive department that is constantly developing, and to maintain the education and training approach that aims to continuously develop in art, design and science by preserving the contemporary and original structure, in all areas of our country from science and technology to art, to train qualified Painting-İş teachers who have gained the intellectual identity they need.