Program in Arts and Crafts Teaching - Ph.D.

General Information about the Department

The Department of Fine Arts Education offers a Ph.D. degree in Arts Education within the Graduate School of Educational Sciences. In our Ph.D. programs we offer courses on the pedagogical possibilities and possibilities of visual arts in culture and society. The program enables students to comprehend the function of arts and arts education in the local and global contexts by a sense of social and ethical responsibility in relation to society. The research interest of Ph.D. program includes a wide spectrum of visual research, art-based research, a/r/tography, visual culture and visual pedagogy at art curriculum, digital culture pedagogy, and arts in education. The Graduate Program focuses on art education based on theory and practice, workshop practices, contemporary art, museum education, technology, and multiculturalism, allowing students to gain competence in developing new approaches with various scientific research methods on these issues.

Career Opportunities

The content of the program includes theoretical and practice-based courses, relevant art-based research paradigm, critical methods and art criticism, learning theories and innovative approaches of art and art education. This allows students to further their current knowledge of art education to prepare for a career in academia. The Ph.D. program is individualized according to students’ interests and competencies. The Ph.D. degree program in art education guides students for research careers or other possible titles of research-based careers to become innovative researchers. The program enables students to achieve leadership or research positions in arts education field, in schools, museums, or communities.

Why international students should choose this department to study

The Graduate Ph.D. Program of Fine Arts Education offers opportunities to help students improve their learning outcomes and techniques or to examine advanced concepts in a field they have determined. The graduate program enables students to gain competencies to carry out research with art based, qualitative and quantitative paradigms in art education research and to develop knowledge and skills in order to do in-depth research and to put in applications by establishing culture, society, and art relations. With the opportunities offered by the program, students gain competencies to carry out effective and creative work that can advance the field of art education.