Education Sciences:Education Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Preschool and Early School Age

Postgraduate Study Program

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Postgraduate Degrees

Science Education
Discourse, Arts and Diversity in Education
Social and Emotional Learning

Message from the Director of the Postgraduate Study Program

Dear Students,
I welcome you to the Postgraduate Study Program “Education Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Early Childhood and the Early Primary School Years” of the Department of Early Childhood Education. Throughout its eight years of operation, the Department’s Postgraduate Study Program has developed a dynamic framework of learning and research opportunities. Postgraduate studies shape the identity of a Department that systematically and dynamically develops the profile of the contemporary researcher and educator within an environment of professional, academic, and personal development.
The aim of the Postgraduate Study Program is to cultivate specialized knowledge, skills, and competences that will enable you to act as scientists, researchers, educators, and active citizens. The teaching staff consists of distinguished academic members of the Department of Early Childhood Education.
Through organized and interdisciplinary research, the Postgraduate Study Program constitutes a highly important dimension of the learning pathway of contemporary postgraduate students, pursuing multiple goals for a better future for both the human-made and natural environment.
Through group-based, collaborative, research-oriented educational activities, postgraduate students specialize in the following areas: a) Science Education (classroom teaching management, ICT tools, design and evaluation of programs and learning environments through the perspective of cognitive and sociocultural approaches), b) Discourse, Arts and Diversity in Education, and c) Social and Emotional Learning. I wish you every success in your studies and warmly invite you to discover those paths which, by following them, will strengthen your potential and enable you to respond successfully to the demanding contemporary role of the researcher, scientist, and educator in the Education Sciences.

The Director of the Postgraduate Study Program
Charilaos K. Zaragkas
Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Ioannina

Purpose of the Postgraduate Study Program

The primary purpose of this Postgraduate Study Program is to promote both basic and applied innovative research on learning and teaching and to support interdisciplinary research activities in the key areas of the educational process, with a focus on early childhood and the early primary school years.
In addition, the Program aims to:

  • address scientific disciplines and cutting-edge fields that fall within the Department’s areas of study and promote its interdisciplinary character
  • contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational innovations
  • facilitate the integration of its graduates into the labor market in accordance with the structural and functional needs of Greek society
  • respond to the longstanding and continuing need for specialized education
  • promote the professional development of graduates from different scientific fields
  • contribute to the evaluation and improvement of the educational process as well as pedagogical practices
  • to serve as a strong driver for highlighting and strengthening the relationship between technology and education, a relationship that constitutes a key factor in innovation
  • to strengthen the potential of the University of Ioannina, with prospects for expanding its presence in Europe and, in particular, the Balkans.

Postgraduate studies in the Postgraduate Study Program “Education Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Early Childhood and the Early Primary School Years” aim:

  • to promote knowledge
  • to advance research and the arts
  • to meet the educational, research, social, cultural, and developmental needs of the country
  • to train highly qualified scientists capable of contributing to theoretical and applied areas of specific academic disciplines, specialized thematic areas, or individual branches of the fields of study included in the first cycle of studies of the Department of Early Childhood Education
  • to produce and disseminate knowledge, know-how, methodologies, tools, and research findings in the scientific fields of education and educational sciences served by the Department.