Further Information
The subject of the Postgraduate Studies Programme is the education of specialized scientists, capable of making use of children's books and design the pedagogical material, acquiring knowhow with the purpose of effectively contributing to the treatment of new educational, reading, and social problems.
Specifically, the programme aims to the theoretical delving into the fields of children's books and literature, of the pedagogical material and of the educational games, as well as into the understanding and management of the relations of competitiveness, complementarity or interaction between the children's book - text and new technologies in the modern learning and educational environment.
Relation To Employment
The graduates of the Postgraduate Studies Programme may work for the use of extracurricular book in school, the cultivation of reading habits, the design of production and the utilisation of older and newer types of pedagogical material, as well as for the uneventful coexistence between the book - printed material and new technologies and the interdisciplinary approach of knowledge in education.
Transitions
Access to this type of qualification have those who hold a Bachelor Degree (level 6). The selection of graduate students is mainly based on the following criteria: the overall grade of the Bachelor Degree, the grades in undergraduate courses that are relevant with the subjects of the Master’s program, the performance in thesis, where is foreseen at the undergraduate level and any research activity of the candidate. The detailed application of the above mentioned criteria, the definition of additional criteria or the conducting of examinations and interviews, the results of which are taken into account in the selection, are determined by decision of the relevant Department.
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 8.
Ways To Aquire
Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.