Description
The students shall be capable of:
Knowledge:
- understanding basic concepts and theories of the education sciences, while being familiarized with the methodologies thereof (educational training);
- acquiring the necessary knowledge on sciences and arts, which provide the contents of the curriculum of the kindergarten (special scientific and artistic training), acquire knowledge for teaching the activities of the kindergarten (teaching training);
- developing the competence of stochastic - critical analysis of the educational work (connection of personal educational theory and practice);
- understand and make use of foreign scientific literature, while having a sufficient and advanced knowledge of their field.
Skills:
- applying the advances and the achievements of the educational sciences on the teaching practice;
- proceed to independent research, with the purpose of producing new knowledge on issues of education and teaching;
- fulfilling with responsibility and success their pedagogic-didactic work;
- resolving composite or new problems arising during the conduct of their pedagogical work;
- communicating with every member of the educational community, with the purpose of disseminating information, ideas, and practical solutions to significant problems.
Competences:
- handling successfully the pedagogical issues resulting during the conduct of their educational work;
- undertaking proactive initiatives for the application of innovative actions, within the context of exercising the educational practice;
- composting effectively the social and cultural differences existing within their educational environment;
- designing, managing, and applying effectively composite professional activities, which relate to the exercise of their pedagogical work;
- taking the right decisions aiming for the beneficial conduct of their pedagogical work within the field of responsibility.
Learning outcomes: The learners, upon completing their studies, shall be capable of:
- cultivating and advancing the Sciences of Education, through academic and applied teaching and research;
- contributing to the elevation of the level of education and to the covering of the social needs with regards to issues of Pedagogy, while contributing to the treatment and resolution of general pedagogical problems;
- exercising with sufficiency and sophisticated knowhow and increased effectiveness the function of the pedagogue in the preschool age, in children between 3-7 years of age, inside the typical school environment.
Relation to Employment
The Department for Primary Education grants a degree (level 6) based on which its holders may find employment in Kindergartens (public or private), in Nurseries (public, municipal, private, of organisations and institutions), in Institutions (for caring, keeping occupied, and treating children), in Preschool Departments of Youth Centres, in Children's Hospitals, in children's amusement parks, in bodies and organisations engaged with the treatment and care of preschool children (3-7 years old).
Access Requirements / Progression Opportunities
Knowledge
Skills
Competences