Overview
The department specializes in offering courses (with the symbol .Ed.). The courses include decisions on the principles of education, social and philosophical foundations of education, educational thought, history of education, adult education and its philosophy, origins, and development, and the philosophy of continuous education and its origins, the teaching profession, education, community issues, and others.
The department is specialized in qualifying the student educationally, by offering him various courses that enrich the student with all educational and professional sides. Moreover, the department is specialized in preparing researchers in research fields and its micro specializations, through different postgraduate programs.
The department intends to be in contact with external society, through a series of lectures, meetings, and visits, hoping to spread benefits to all educational and community services, where sustaining human development is part of our mission.
Vision
The department seeks to achieve pioneering and excellence locally and regionally and to prepare an expert teacher, fulfilled with knowledge, skills, and manners that enable him to contribute effectively to building up society.
Mission
The department seeks to prepare expert teachers academically and professionally and to conduct rooting, applied, and field research in the field of educational principles to contribute to solving educational and societal problems. This is in coordination with departments, faculties, and authorities in the offering, producing, and managing of educational knowledge, in addition, to deploying and developing them.
Goals
- Participating in qualifying teachers along all educational phases professionally will enrich them with skills of criticism and analysis of educational terminologies that are related to their path.
- Increase the level of quality of offered educational courses in both stages; undergraduates and postgraduates.
- To prepare discrete researchers in fields of educational principles, using their mentalities and abilities, to keep pace with changes happening in economic, political, and cultural areas.
- To conduct researches that contribute to the production and updating of educational cognition.
- To prepare researchers that serve the educational process, in addition, to enriching educational knowledge and spreading new educational trends.
- To solve learning, educational and social problems that are imposed due to current situations, as to meet the relation between theory and application.
- To enrich the Arabic educational library with a group of historical educational writings.
- To authenticate relations between the department and other departments inside the faculty and the university and with related societal authorities.
- To offer technical consultation that contributes to developing and updating education.
- To enhance the professional level and deepen quality culture inside all employees.
- To promote the skills that enable them to deal with the era’s changes and quality requirements.
- To prepare educational activities for the department.