Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Uzunboylu, Dean of Atatürk Faculty of Education, Asst. Prof. Dr. Deniz Özcan, the Head of the Department of Gifted Education, Asst. Prof. Dr. Esen Sucuoğlu, Exp. Nuket Gündüz, Exp. Gözde Evran and Exp. Ahmet Arnavut represented the Near East University successfully at the 9th World Conference on Educational Sciences that held at Hotel Aston La Scala Convention Center in Nice – France.
According the press info released by the Directorate of Press and Public Relations Office of the Near East University, the World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES) is an annual event that has been held since 2009. WCES was first held at the Near East University in TRNC, the 2nd and the 3rd WCES were held in Istanbul, the 4th WCES was held in Barcelona, and then it was held in Rome, in Malta, in Athens, in Madrid respectively, and WCES 20017 was held in Nice - France on February 1-4.
The 9th World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES 2017) provided platform for more than 500 educational scientists, administers, education experts, teachers, civil society organizations and representatives from 46 different countries to share and to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge in a scientific environment. All major topics related to Educational Sciences were covered through panels, sessions and debates that held throughout WCES 2017. Near East University Faculty Members represented the Near East University successfully at the conference with their presentations that attracted great interest of the attending body. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Uzunboylu, Dean of NEU Atatürk Faculty of Education, who was one of the keynote speakers at the opening ceremony, took active role in the conference as the Conference Committee Member.
Papers that accepted and presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. Besides, all accepted papers will be published by International Leading Publishers (on process of agreement) or AWER-Center Proceedings Journals indexed by AWER INDEX and also submitted to SCOPUS, EBSCO, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
