The Faculty of Education Sciences trains professionals to work in schools and further education.
Location
The Faculty is situated in Via Zamboni 34.
Here you can find the Dean's Office, the teaching and administrative offices, the lecture halls and the computer laboratories.
About us
The Faculty of Education Sciences was founded in 1996, when it replaced the School of Education. The new teaching set-up comprises a 3-year first cycle degree course and a 2-year second cycle degree course (as well as postgraduate doctorates and masters degrees). The Faculty was inaugurated in the academic year 2001-2002 to meet the requirements set by the reform of the Italian university system.
The Faculty’s cultural and scientific vocation is – by means of its contribution to research in the field of education sciences (e.g. in the studies of a pedagogical, psychological, sociological, anthropological and educational nature) – to put education (both in schools and as concerns the life-long learning dimension) at the top of its agenda.
In this period of transition and change (the passage from the 20th century to the new millennium, from modern to post-modern times, from nationalism to globalisation), there is a general awareness that education represents a social and economic resource, as well as a cultural and human resource that all countries over the world should possess.
The Faculty’s new teaching provision includes an array of 3-year first-cycle degree courses (two degree courses are aimed at further education studies, while four of them are addressed to training socio-educationists); there are also 2-year second cycle degree courses (three courses altogether, beginning in the upcoming academic year).
In particular, the first-cycle degree courses are based on the following academic progressions:
- Degree courses aimed at the training of educationists and teachers awarding a vocational degree - a 4-year course for primary school education - which entitle graduates to teach in nursery schools or crèches (early infancy; babies and toddlers aged from 0-3) and that train professionals who are specialised in child-caring or child-minding; nursery schools (infants aged 3-6) and for primary schools (primary school children aged 6-11).
- The degree courses aimed at the training of socio-educationists for non-scholastic organisations (cultural and professional centres, rehabilitation, environmental and sports institutes/organisations, etc.) and for post-school education institutes (permanent, recurrent, and continuing education) award qualifications in the following four areas:
cultural operator/expert in education science, professional educator; trainer.