Inter-Departmental Master’s Degree Program “Socio-cultural Education and Training of Animators” (accepted enrollments from 2003-04 until 2007-08)
The Inter-Departmental Master’s Degree Program “Socio-cultural Education and Training of Animators” was implemented by the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy – Pedagogy – Psychology of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood and Educational Design of the University of the Aegean.
Until 2008, the Master’s Degree Program was co -financed by the Ministry of National Education and Religion and the European Union as part of the actions of the “New Programs of Post – Graduate Studies”.
The Master’s Degree Program operated in Alexandroupolis from the academic year 2003-04 until the academic year 2010-11. It accepted enrollments from the academic year 2003-04 until the academic year 2007-08. The maximum number of postgraduate students enrolled per year was twenty-five (25). The Postgraduate Programme required the compulsory attendance of all courses, seminars and workshops, the implementation of a practicum, as well as the completion of a postgraduate research project (Dissertation). The total duration of the programme was four (4) semesters. The Post-Graduate Program awards, after the successful completion of the relative cycles of studies the Master’s Degree of Educator Specialization in the general area of “Social – cultural Education and Training of Animators” in one of the following directions: a) “Social and Cultural Education” and (b) “Supportive Early Childhood Education”.
The subject of the Master’s Degree Program was the post-graduate teaching, research and practical application in the areas of Social and Cultural Education as well as Supportive Early Childhood Education.
The main aims of the Program were the following:
(a) The specialization of the graduates of the Sciences of Education or of graduates of other equivalent University Institutions of theoretical direction (pedagogical, psychological, social) in the modern methods and techniques of preparing inspirers with the aim of contributing to the effective education and support of children of pre-school age in social-cultural matters so that they will be able to deal adequately with the educational needs in the public and private sector, in the Organizations of the wider public sector of the country as well as of other countries of the European Union or outside it.
(b) The in-depth training of scientists so that they will be able to produce new knowledge.
The Program of Studies included:
a) Main Courses (5)
b) Direction Courses (5)
c) Practicum – Design, application and assessment of the educational/cultural program.
d) Writing of the presentation for the Practicum
e) Writing of the Thesis
f) Participation in the Parallel Program of Seminars, Lectures, Laboratories, Conferences.
The main courses aimed at the: a) deep understanding of the knowledge which is necessary for the design and carrying out of research in the area of education, b) widening of knowledge for the use of new technologies for teaching purposes, c) correlation of individual characteristics which become involved in the learning through the social processes and d) learning of the methods and techniques of animating.
The direction courses provided certain knowledge for the development of programs of sensitization in matters of: functioning of the thought process, unity of cognitive and emotional function, health, multiculturalism, environment, state institutions, etc.
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Director: |
Loukia Beze, Professor, Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood, DUTH |
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Scientific Coordinator from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens: |
Elias Bezebegis, Professor |
| Scientific Coordinator from the University of Aegean: | Maria Kaila, Professor |
Internal Regulation (2003-2005) (pdf)
Internal Regulation (2006-2008) (pdf)
Course diagrams (pdf)