Fatma Mızıkacı, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ankara University
Short Biography
Dr. Fatma
Mızıkacı received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the Middle East
Technical University and MA in TEFL from Bilkent University. She is specialized
in higher education systems, policies, curriculum, and instruction. Her main research interests include European and international higher
education, privatization, program evaluation and accreditation, Bologna process
and higher education policies, higher education systems and policies in Turkey, Central Asia, Europe, and
the US. She was a visiting scholar at UNESCO-CEPES in 2004.
UNESCO published her book Higher
Education in Turkey in 2006. As a UNESCO scholar, she got involved in EU
and international projects and published books and book chapters in Demographic
Trends in Higher Education, Private Higher Education, Total Quality Management
in Higher Education, The Role of Education and Ideology in
Re-building Nation-States in Post-Soviet Societies, and Mega
Trends in European Higher Education. Between
2005 and 2014 in different periods, she taught
classes at Middle East Technical University in Turkey and Cyprus and at Zhetysu
University in Kazakhstan. In 2016, she became a TÜBİTAK scholar, worked with
Peter McLaren at Chapman University in the USA, and conducted a large-scale
project on Critical Discourse Analysis in Higher Education: A Case of two
University Models in California. She is the co-editor of A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case
Comparisons from Turkey and the United States (2017, Rowman & Littlefield). She is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ankara
University, Turkey. She teaches Curriculum and
Instruction, Theory of Curriculum, Ideology, and Philosophy of Curriculum, Qualitative
Research and Higher Education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.