Sehnaz Sünnetcioglu

Sehnaz Sünnetcioglu, PhD is an associate professor at Bursa Uludag University, Faculty of Education. She teaches music and creative drama in the primary teacher education program and courses in the postgraduate/doctoral program.

She completed her doctoral degree in 2016 at Ankara University, Educational Sciences Institute, Arts Education Program. Her research interests include interdisciplinary music education, developing creative classroom practices for recognizing and understanding contemporary art in schools, intercultural approaches in music teaching and learning, social-emotional learning skills in music education, and implementing creative drama practices in education.

She has served as a researcher-educator on various EU projects. Some of these projects are 2007 – 2009 FACE IT (Focus on Awareness of Culture and Education for International Teachers) project, 2010 – 2011 ETSize (European Teachers Synthesize), 2012 – 2013 IP DIVUS Project: DIVersity and sUStainability in Education, Brussels/Belgium, 2012 – 2015 VOICES – The Voices of European Teachers, 2021 – 2023 Erasmus Plus Project KA201- Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood Education through Dramatic Storytelling (SESDECE). Her research articles have been published in national and international scientific journals (ERIC, Scopus, EBSCO, ERA). Also, she has authored book chapters on imagination, creativity, and alternative education in early childhood.

Sehnaz Sünnetcioglu is the Erasmus and International Relations Coordinator at the Department of Primary Teacher Education and is responsible for creating new collaborations under bilateral agreements with European universities. She has conducted various seminars and workshops on different methods and approaches in music teaching and creative drama with teachers and pre-service teachers in Türkiye and abroad. She has also participated in several national and international conferences for oral presentations of her research and projects.