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  • Gülçin AlpögeAuthor – Turkey
  • Katarina Svenning

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gülçin alpöge was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1935. She graduated from the American College in Istanbul, gained a certificate of Pedagogy from the University of Istanbul, went to the US as a Fullbright student, and received her Master’s Degree in education from New York University. In 1983, she received her PhD in psycholinguistics from the University of Istanbul where she also became a professor in 2002.

However, before she started working at the University, Alpöge worked in different schools both as a preschool teacher and as a director. From her work with children she became familiar with the type of questions children ask, which inspired her to write children’s books. Alpöge’s first book is called Dripsy and Dropsy and is about water. Ash Is Waiting for Sunday is about the concept of time, and I Miss My Grandpa is about the death of a loved one. Alpöge both writes her own stories and rewrites folk-and fairy tales for children. As well as her children’s books, she has also published six academic books and several articles in both Turkish and international journals.

When Alpöge was still a student, she was part of a theatre group which organized a theatre, music, and culture festival called the Erdek Festival. The festival took place in Istanbul and was the first of its kind in Turkey. Alpöge was responsible for the children’s activities at the festival. Amongst other activities, she guided the children to perform a play for other visitors at the festival.

Gülçin Alpöge has also taken part in the work of the Mother Child Education Foundation, which has researched parenting on different levels. One of their discoveries is that parent education is very important, especially for those children who are not in nursery schools. Alpöge wrote the initial program for how the foundation wants to teach parents how to help their children develop. One aim for the foundation is to introduce children to books and to have parents read to their children. Alpöge has written eleven books for the foundation.

Alpöge has been a member of IBBY since 1990. She has served four years on the executive committee of IBBY, and in addition to that, she was the president of IBBY Turkey for six years.

The most recent work published by Gülçin Alpöge is Teaching Values to Preschool Children, in which she has chosen ten different values that she tries to make as concrete as possible in order for the children to really grasp their meaning. The book was sponsored by the Borusan foundation and has been distributed to all nursery schools in Istanbul.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Şıpşıp ile Tıptıp [Dripsy and Dropsy]. Istanbul: Arkın Yayınları, 1974. Print.
Işıkları Seven Böcek [The Bug that Loved Lights]. Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 2012. Print.
Dedemi Özlüyorum [I Miss My Grandpa]. Ankara: Kök Yayıncılık. 2004. Print.
Aya Tutkun Uçurtma [The Kite That Wanted the Moon]. Ankara: Kök Yayıncılık, 1995. Print.
Okul Öncesinde Değer Eğitimi [Teaching Ethical Values to Preschool Children]. Ankara: Bilgi, 2011. Print. [End Page 58]
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