Master in Higher Education Policy: Theory and Praxis (Ma-Hep) - Teacher Education
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DURATION
2 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
The Inter-University Inter-Departmental Master awards a Diploma of Postgraduate Studies (MSc) in Higher Education Policy: Theory and Practice (MaHep).
The Master has two specializations:
- Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance
- Teacher Education
The duration of the MaHep is two academic semesters or 60 ECTS. The maximum duration is four (4) semesters.
Attendance of all educational activities is compulsory and is a prerequisite for student evaluation.
MaHep is implemented at a distance. The place of the examinations is Patras and the University of Patras.
The Programme of Studies includes three Modules in the first semester, each corresponding to 9 ECTS or a total of 27 ECTS and a seminar of scientific reflection (Colloquium) corresponding to 3 ECTS. The second semester concerns the thesis dissertation.
Aims and objective
Subject matter
The subject matter of the master's programme is higher education. More specifically, higher education as a social institution and as a field for the development and application of policies on a national, European and global level and higher education policy as an independent scientific branch of education policy and the sciences of education. The choice of higher education as the subject matter of the Master should be considered as self-evident given the significance attached to it today globally for social, economic, technological and cultural development and progress. In any case, this is the reason why today higher education is to be found at the centre of interest as much from a political as from a scientific point of view. On a European level especially the creation of the European Higher Education Area as the consummation of the Bologna Process shapes a new international framework for the operation and development of higher education and creates increased demands and ambitions for the future.
The first postgraduate programme with this subject matter in Greece
Within precisely this context the initiative for the creation of a postgraduate programme in Greece which would focus on higher education was developed. It is the first postgraduate programme with this subject matter in Greece. While postgraduate programmes which refer to various elements and expressions of education policy and the education sciences generally do exist, none specialise in higher education policy. From this point of view, the present initiative aims to carve out a pioneering programme in Greece.
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Ideal Students
Target Group
The main target groups addressed by this postgraduate programme are:
- Current and/or future teachers who would like to specialize in issues related to the theoretical and practical debate on the desired profile of the teacher and the conditions for its constitution (education: initial and lifelong). The aim is to link with the relevant European and international debates in the perspective of the formation of the European Area of Education. In particular, the specialization wants to train experts in teacher education, creating a critical mass of teachers who will be able to negotiate rationally and up-to-date the conditions of their scientific identity, their professional development and their autonomy
- Νew graduates of various disciplines who are interested in specializing in a specific subject to either pursue a scientific career by continuing for doctoral studies with research/academic prospects or to acquire relevant employment prospects as professionals with the scientific constitution of the field (Teacher Education), given that current developments create conditions for a radical reshaping of the teacher of school education both at the scientific and at the working level.
Curriculum
Semester 1
- Module 1: European and Greek Framework of Higher Education (9 ECTS)
- Module 2: Historical Context – Social Dimension of Higher Education (9 ECTS)
- Module 3: Teacher Education: Theory and Practice (9 ECTS).
- Colloquium (3 ECTS)
Semester 2
Dissertation (30 ECTS)(25 ECTS + 5 ECTS research methodology).
Program Outcome
Graduate students will be able to:
- Discuss analytical, critical and comparative issues concerning the EHEA and the Greek higher education system (GHES) both in terms of their constitution and their development
- Argue on various individual aspects of both the EHEA and the GHES, distinguishing convergences and divergences
- Formulate rational arguments on the relationship between the EHEA and the labour market
- Discuss critically the historical development of the GHES
- Argue on the historical development of the ‘university’ institution
- Discuss the historical development of the Greek university
- Analyze the social dimensions of the university
- Relate the university to other global priorities
- Take a critical approach to the constitution of the university’s vision and mission
- Negotiate the issue of internationalization
- Analyze and critically argue the history of the teaching profession based on international and Greek experience
- Negotiate and approach the history of teacher education both internationally and in Greece
- Explain and present synthetically the stakes and challenges of the University Departments of Teacher Education
- They can rationally and creatively participate in the current debate on teacher education in both its initial and ongoing forms
- Document the importance of internship and interpret its value
- Be able to give a thorough account of the issue of professional development and teacher autonomy
- Discuss lifelong learning and the role of adult educators
- Recall and quote research methods and techniques
- Identify, select and indicate research methods and techniques
- Handle and apply research methods and techniques
- Contrast, explain and argue on research methods and techniques
- Be able to understand the rationale behind quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Be able to explain why their chosen research methodology is appropriate
- Be able to distinguish why and when both types of research are used.