Message from the Guest Editors

Message from the Guest Editors

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ScienceDirect Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 116 (2014) 1

Message from the Guest Editors It is the great honor for us to edit this special issue of Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal for the selected revised papers presented in The 5th World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES-2013) held on th February 05th – 08 2013, at the University of Rome Sapienza University in historical city of Rome in Italy, which is organized collaboratively with University of Sapienza, Near East University, Ankara University, and Bahcesehir University and hosted by Rome Sapienza University. This privileged scientific event has contributed to the field of educational sciences and research for four years. As the guest editor of this issue, we are glad to see variety of articles focusing on the curriculum and instruction, educational technology, educational administration, guidance and counselling, educational planning, measurement and evaluation, learning psychology, developmental psychology, instructional design, learning and teaching, special education, distance education, lifelong learning, mathematics education, social sciences teaching, science education, language learning and teaching, human resources in education, teacher training, pre-school education, primary school education, secondary school education, vocational education, college and higher education, learner needs in the 21st century, the role of education in globalization, human rights education, democracy education, innovation and change in education, new learning environments, environmental education, professional development, nursery education, health education, sport and physical education, multi-cultural education, mobile learning, technology-based learning, computer usage in education and etc. Furthermore, the journal is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting worldwide known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contributed to this issue of the journal. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to in every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 2321 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 1039 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication. I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers. Guest Editors Prof. Dr. Jesus Garcia Laborda, University of Alcala, Spain Assist. Prof. Dr. Fezile Ozdamli, Near East University, North Cyprus Yasar Maasoglu, Near East University, North Cyprus Editorial Assistants Didem Işlek Vasfi Tuğun Erinç Eçağ Gülşen Hüssein Ezgi Pelin Yıldız Tahir Tavukçu Naziyet Uzunboylu 1877-0428 © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Academic World Education and Research Center. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.156