CONCEPT WORKSHOP

The “Concept Workshop” was held on November 22, 2025, by the Bülbülzade Foundation Education Teachers Unit. The workshop, organized at Zade Life Hotel, was moderated by Ebuzer Nas. The event included various presentations aimed at enhancing conceptual clarity and reassessing intellectual frameworks.

The workshop began with an opening speech by Turgay Aldemir, President of the Bülbülzade Foundation. Reflecting on concepts, Aldemir emphasized that the human mind thinks through concepts, yet a sound mind does not reduce truth solely to concepts, stating, “Truth is greater than the concepts and meanings that describe it.”

The first session of the workshop continued with a presentation titled “Rethinking Our Concept Sets” by Ali Özcan, President of the Refar Institute. Özcan addressed the background of concepts and the need to reassess established sets of thought.

Ebuzer Nas, the coordinator of the Concept Workshop, detailed the intellectual framework of the event in his presentation titled “Purpose and Goals of the Workshop.” Following the presentation, an “open discussion” consisting of two questions was conducted by Cumali Kaplan, head of the Secondary Education Commission, to evaluate the workshop’s fields of study.

The workshop continued with Ahmet Taşkesen’s presentation “Evaluation of Existing Contexts.” After the presentation, focus groups were formed and group discussions were held.

The third presentation of the workshop was delivered by Şehadet Gerçek, titled “Identifying New Conceptual Contexts.” Highlighting the importance of concept sets, Gerçek stated, “The time has come for us to produce our own concepts and contexts with a strong, confident, and self-assured psychology.” After the presentation, participants engaged in a brainstorming session on concept analysis, paving the way for new ideas to emerge.

Following the analyses, the workshop continued with the sessions “Concepts and Contexts to Be Avoided” and “Risk Analysis,” in which the potential impacts of the conceptual preferences were discussed. Finally, after the session titled “Concepts/Contexts to Be Prioritized and Abandoned,” the workshop concluded with the sharing of views on the subject of concepts and a closing speech.