The Department of Pedagogy of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was founded on January 12, 1940. Today it is one of the oldest departments of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, which was renamed the Department of Pedagogy and Education Management and trains specialists of pedagogical profile.

The formation of the department goes hand in hand with the development of pedagogical and psychological thinking of the university, pedagogical culture and general education in Kazakhstan. In different years, the department was headed by leading scientists of pedagogy and great personalities - Shakir Kokymbaevich Kokymbaev, Tulegen Tazhibaev, Abhdhamit Ibneevich Sembaev, Kartbai Bekenovich Berzhanov, Hasen Kuandykovich Argynov, Boris Zharkenovich Sadykov, Gulnaz Kenzhetaevna Akhmetova, Zauresh Abdrazakovna Isayeva.

Mynbaeva Aigerim Kazyevna,Bulatbayeva Aigul Abdimazhitovna,Sarsenbayeva Gulnara Moldrakhmanova. Currently, the head of the department is Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Acting Professor, Alkozhayeva Nursulu Seitkerimovna.

Oustanding doctors of pedagogical sciences worked at the department; they are professors K.B. Zharikbayev, Zh.R. Bashirova, A.T. Tabyldiev, N.A. Asanov and others.

Prominent lecturers and scientists N.D. Khmel, K.Zh.Kozhakhmetova, A.K. Kusainov, Sh.T. Taubaeva, I.P. Khalitova, K.Zh. Aganina and others were invited to teach at the department of pedagogy and educational management.

Since its inception, the department has trained highly qualified specialists in education and other spheres of society, and today our graduates work in different parts of the country and abroad. The department is an educational, scientific and social center for the training of scientific and pedagogical staff and highly qualified specialists in demand in the labor market.