Özet:

Ceramics education in Turkey at academic level dates back to the establishment of Department of Decorative Arts in 1929 at Sanayii Nefise Mektebi (today, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University). In parallel with the developments in ceramics sector in 2000s, the number of institutions offering ceramics education at university level has considerably increased. Today, there are 21 programs providing ceramics education at university level in Turkey. 9 of these programs offer integrated educational programs which involve glass education as well as ceramics edu- cation. Within the scope of this study, the programs that are still in the early phases of their establishment procedures were excluded from the study and the ones that actively continue their educational programs were examined. These 21 programs were accessed via emails and their official websites and the data about 19 of them were obtained. This study aims to examine ceramics education programs at undergraduate lev- el in Turkey within the context of the tendencies observed in terms of content and course distributions. It also aims to do an overall evaluation and situation analysis of undergraduate ceramics education in Turkey. To achieve this purpose, the course programs prepared in 8-semester catalogue format and followed by the departments of ceramics were examined. The study is significant in that it provides insights for evaluat- ing and measuring whether ceramics education offered in undergraduate programs reach their goals or not, and valuable data is obtained to monitor or update these programs to achieve certain quality standards. Although it might be a bit optimistic to claim that such monitoring and evaluations are carried out periodically in each institution, the increase in the number of institutional evaluations, which will be fueled by the attempts to be initiated by Higher Education Council at national level in the near future, will lead to positive developments in the long term.

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