Management of educational services and life long education
Class: LM-50 R - & LM-57 R -
Next Calls for applications (international students) - A.Y. 2024/25:
- 1st Call: 2 November 2023 - 2 February 2024
- 2nd Call: 2 March - 2 May 2024
- 3rd Call (ONLY EU and equated students): 2 June - 2 August 2024
Imagine blossoming the future of education and training. This master's interclass course trains pedagogues, pedagogists, managers and professional figures ready to innovate the socio-educational context. It is divided into two trajectories: the LM 57, Science of Adult and Continuing Education, explores adult learning and development, offering tools for personal and professional growth, and fostering continuous learning environments. LM 50, Educational Services Planning and Management, views education as an opportunity to design and coordinate social-educational services that support the development of individuals and communities, delving into “educational care.” Both tracks are enriched by dialogue with professional organizations and communities, offering insights into transformative educational practice. The Course invites you to explore, reflect and grow as a professional, contributing to innovation and sustainability.
Curricula
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT DEI SERVIZI EDUCATIVI E FORMAZIONE CONTINUA
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Characteristics and objectives
The interclass Master's degree program aims to train managers in the field of educational and training professions. The two involved degree classes, LM-57 (Adult Education and Continuing Education Sciences) and LM-50 (Programming and Management of Educational Services), both in the socio-educational area, maintain the distinctive features that have always characterized them and have produced successful educational and occupational outcomes in the educational, training, and social fields over the years. The two degree track have converging professional aspects in the field of Education and distinguishing elements that polarize one (LM-57) on expert knowledge and competencies in the field of training of trainers, design, programming, management, and evaluation of adult education and continuing education, and guidance in employment services and human resource management; the other (LM-50) on knowledge and competencies in coordination, design, programming, evaluation, and management of socio-educational services aimed at individuals and organizations.
The interclass program offers activities and courses in English, opportunities for exchanges abroad through specific Erasmus agreements, an international Blended Intensive Programme that takes place every year in February in Germany at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, and, starting from the academic year 2022-23, an international Double Degree program (Double Degree in Continuing Education and Management) that allows students to acquire two national degrees issued by the involved universities. The Double Degree program provides for a shared study plan, with the first year at the Padua campus and the second year at the foreign campus.
The program is blended, with classroom activities (50%) and online activities (50%). Some courses also include mandatory hybrid workshops. A compulsory curricular internship is required to be carried out at organizations affiliated with the University of Padua, in Italy or abroad.
Both classes also share a project that promotes dialogue with professional organizations and communities, through which interested and selected students can conduct research activities for their thesis in organizations and professional communities.
Occupational opportunities
The program prepares professionals with solid expertise in the field of adult learning processes, continuing education, and human resource management and development.
It aims to develop competencies in the management, programming, and coordination of educational interventions, personnel evaluation, and certification of competencies in organizations (companies, services, training agencies).
It provides solid knowledge in the educational, pedagogical, psychological, sociological, philosophical, and economic fields; develops knowledge and skills to operate in the educational and training field using the most appropriate methods and technologies, both in-person and remotely, enhancing transformative and action-research activities in organizations, and developing tools for educational and professional guidance with particular attention to the ethical dimension, European and national regulatory frameworks, design strategies, and proper organizational and economic management of human, financial, and technical resources.
Furthermore, the program prepares specialized figures competent in the management, coordination, organization, and evaluation of socio-educational, rehabilitative, and training services related to various work and life situations of the life cycle condition and to various territorial contexts (local, regional, national, European). It aims to train professionals capable of operating through the reading and detection of educational, cultural, social-assistance, rehabilitative, and training needs related to individual and social issues, also connected to vulnerability and marginality, relating them to socio-economic-productive and political-institutional evolutions, and developing educational synergies with particular attention to the identification and enhancement of human, social, and cultural resources present in the territory and functional to addressing the processes of continuous and inter-institutional innovation. Specifically, it intends to provide: knowledge and skills in pedagogical, sociological, psychological, philosophical, and economic sciences with particular reference to the management of different types of educational services.
Curricula
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT DEI SERVIZI EDUCATIVI E FORMAZIONE CONTINUA
Double degree opportunity
Students enrolled in this programme will be offered the chance to participate in a double degree opportunity with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg (Germany), in order to obtain two Master’s degrees in two years: the Master of Science Degree in Management of Educational Services and Continuing Education (UNIPD) and a Master of Arts in Educational Science (Bildungswissenschaft, Fachspezifische Bestimmungen für das Studienfach Bildungswissenschaft mit dem Abschluss Master of Arts) from the University of Würzburg.
