Balikesir University NEF Music Education Departmen

National Network
Türkiye
Address

Balikesir Universitesi
Necatibey Egitim Fakultesi Muzik Egitimi Anabilim Dalı
Dinkciler Mah. Soma Cad. 10100
Merkez/BALIKESIR/TURKEY

Balikesir/
Turkey

Telephone
+9 0266 241 27 62
E-Mail
okay@balikesir.edu.tr
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1992
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Necatibey Faculty of Education founded with the name of Karesi Darülmuallimin in 1910. The school moved to its today's location in 1932 while Mustafa Necatibey was working as Ministry of Education. And then it was called Necatibey Teacher Training School. The Necatibey Faculty of Education continued to train teachers in between 1932 and 1982 with the names of Institute of Necatibey Education and Necatibey Teacher Training High School. In 1982, It was called Necatibey Faculty of Education after joining to (Bursa) Uludag University. Necatibey Faculty of Education has been continuing Education under Balikesir University since 1992. It has eight departments and 19 sub-departments in the academic year of 2013-2014 with about 4500 students.
Mission and Objectives

Mission:
Music Training Mainscience Branch’s vision is to train well-informed and art-qualified music teachers, to produce knowledge in the fields of education-instruction and music teaching profession, to improve itself continuously, to bring scientific solutions to the problems of social education-instruction in national and international dimensions and of training music teachers, to be in the front row with its artistic work to be a mainscience branch that is felt proud of being a member and a graduate.
Objectives:
Music Training Mainscience Branch has the following duties; To do main and applied, scientific research in the fields of education-instruction and music teaching profession; To train music teachers that follow Atatürk’s principles and reforms with sincerity that are peaceable, compassionate, tolerant, fair, democratic that have got professional talent and sensitiveness, that busy with music and create music that help the society’s music culture in national and international dimensions to improve that can think in analytical and critical ways that have got communicative skill that are reconciled with themselves environments and that are creative constructive and prominent. To present music training programmes to related institutions about subjects which are necessary for the society, to research, to arrange scientific and artistic activities for training the people working in education institutions.

Main Projects / Activities

-Music concerts in different music styles,
-Seminars about Turkish music culture,
-Workshops about Turkish traditional music's unique qualities, with young persons from different countries,

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We have experiences about international artistic activities. ALF Network offers opportunities to expand international network about music culture.

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr.H.Hakan Okay
Head of the organisation
Assoc. Prof.Dr. Cansevil Tebis