Inayet AYDIN

Prof. Dr. İnayet Aydın graduated from Ankara University’s Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Educational Management and Planning, in 1985. Between 1986 and 1988, she worked at Sümerbank’s Banking Personnel and Training Directorate. In 1988, she completed her master’s degree at Ankara University’s Institute of Social Sciences with a thesis titled, “Skill Training Given to Commercial High School Students in Sümerbank Branches as per the 3308 Apprentice and Vocational Education Law.” Later that year, she was appointed as a Research Assistant in the same faculty and department.

Dr. Aydın obtained her doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on “Sources of Stress in Educational Management” and was subsequently appointed as an Assistant Professor to the department. In 1996, she spent 8 months in the United States at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio as a post-doctoral researcher, courtesy of a scholarship awarded by the Higher Education Council and the World Bank’s National Education Development Project. During this period, she also served as a guest lecturer at a 6-week Management Training Academy.

In 1997, she earned the title of Associate Professor and undertook roles as the Deputy Director of Ankara University’s Faculty of Educational Sciences Educational Research and Application Center for one year, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Educational Sciences for three years. Between 1999 and 2001, she provided consultancy on two research projects at the Ministry of National Education’s Education Research and Development Directorate, namely “Teacher Performance Evaluation” and “Family Participation in School Management.” She also chaired the Commission Supporting Educational Researches. She had previously conducted a study titled “Ethical Behaviors of Educational Managers” and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997. She was granted full professorship in 2003.

Prof. Dr. Aydın is the author of nine books, including “Stress in Work Life,” “Managerial, Professional, and Organizational Ethics,” “Education Management,” “Alternative Schools,” “Ethics in Education and Teaching,” “Teaching Supervision,” “Oral History of the Field of Education Management in Turkey: Pioneering Academics,” “Pioneering Women in Turkish Education Management,” and “In-Service Training Manual for Public and Private Sectors.” She also co-authored a chapter in “Educational Leadership: Global Contexts and International Comparisons” Volume 11, for which she won the “Outstanding Authorship Contribution” award from Emerald Publishing in 2010. Furthermore, she wrote two chapters in the 2010 book “Human Resource Studies in Management.” Prof. Dr. Aydın has numerous articles published in both Turkish and international journals.

She teaches various courses at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, including “Human Resources Management,” “Professional Ethics,” “In-Service Training,” “Inspection Techniques,” “Supervision in Teaching,” “New Approaches in Education Management,” “Ethics in Management,” and “Contemporary Audit Approaches.” With years of research and teaching experience in in-service training for employees, she has conducted over 100 seminars and conferences in the last five years on a range of topics, including professional ethics, public ethics, ethical education, in-service training techniques, human resource management, stress management, organizational and individual effectiveness, interpersonal relationships and communication, trainer training, contemporary auditing techniques, auditing ethics, management processes, academic ethics, publishing ethics, productivity in management, performance evaluation, and alternative schools.