faculty of pedagogy

|[pic] |SOUTH-WEST UNIVERSITY "NEOFIT RILSKI" |
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| |FACULTY OF PEDAGOGY |
| |DEPARTMENT OF PRE-SCHOOL AND PRIMERY SCHOOL PEDAGOGI |
PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION MASTER'S PROGRAMME
"INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION" |Field of higher education: |1. Pedagogical sciences |
|Professional area: |1.2. Pedagogy |
|Degree level: |Master's |
|Professional qualification: |Master - pedagogue in Intercultural|
| |education |
|Period of education: |Two semesters |
|Form of education: |Full-time | EDUCATIONAL GOALS
The preparation of the specialist aims at building new type of teachers
who work in the conditions of post-modernity issuing the hew paradigms in
the philosophy of the education in multi-culture. The education in Master's
programme ensures the acquiring of pedagogical and also of intercultural
competencies which allow the teacher to be more effective in cultures,
different from his own. More precisely they are:
. Ability to make easier the education in the cognitive, emotional
and behavioral field among students from different ethno-
cultures;
. Knowledge about the inter-culture - essence, cultural
misunderstanding and conflicts, factors for effective inter-
cultural interactions; models for evaluation of the needs of the
students, the problems of the differences;
. Wide set of lecture strategies for work with students and
parents from the minorities;
. Knowledge about the ethno-cultural specifics and the cultural
identity of the students;
. Possibilities and skills for analysis and adaptation of
different programmes and study documentation in the work in
inter-cultural environment; Without variation of the basic
principles to change the contents and especially the methods and
the instruments of education;
. Attitudes to: sensibilities towards the "other" and the "other
culture", tolerance to ambiguity which is higher in the multi-
cultural groups; maintenance of personal identity, patience;
interpersonal communication, interest in the students and their
culture; openness to their problems and openness to the "other"
culture.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The curriculum and syllabi are developed according to the requirements
of the higher education policies in Bulgaria.
The study lasts 2 (two) semesters. The curriculum provides 675 academic
hours and 60 ECTS CR. The ECTS credits are divided equally in the two
semesters according to the State requirements (article 44? of the Law for
change and complement of the Law for higher education - State Journal, vol.
48/04.06.2004 and Regulation N 21 from 30.09.2004 for application of system
for credit transfer in higher educational institutions - State Journal,
vol. 89/12.10.2004).
The programme structure provides compulsory, elective and facultative
courses.
The compulsory courses guarantee the acquirement of intercultural
competencies which allow the teacher to be more effective in work in
cultural diversity environment.
The elective courses ensure enlargement and building the theoretical
and special preparation in the specialty by acquiring specific knowledge
and competencies.
The facultative courses enable students to acquire new skills and
knowledge of their interest that are not a part of the curriculum.
Students are to graduate after they successfully pass their final exam
or defend their master thesis. For that final part of the master's
programme they gain 10 ECTS CR (article 10 of Regulation N 21 from
30.09.2004).
EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL COMPATIBILITY OF THE EXPERTISE
GAINED
The curricula contents, the programme structure, ECTS, the quality of
education and the qualification gained enable students to be competitive on
the labor market as special education specialists or resource teachers or
to continue their education in Bulgaria or abroad.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
The students who have successfully finished the education in Master's
inter-cultural programme get the professional qualification "Master-
pedagogue in inter-cultural education". They can work as experts in inter-
cultural education, teachers at schools for students without parents and at
schools for students with mixed ethno-culture.
Graduate Master's students have future possibility:
. to specialize in different forms of continuing education and lifelong
learning;
. to proceed with their education in Ph.D degree .
CURRICULUM
MASTER'S PROGRAMME
"INTER-CULTURAL EDUCATION" |First year | |
|First Semester |ECTS |Second Semester |ECTS |
| | | |credits |
| |credits | | |
|Philosophy of inter-cultural | |Interaction school-family |3.0 |
|education |3.0 |from different ethnic's | |
|Inter-cultural education and | |Education without prejudices |3.0 |
|research |3.0 |Graduation (receiving | |
|Interactive methods and | |diploma) |15.0 |
|techniques for education in |3.0 | | |
|multi-ethnic environment | | | |
|Methodology and methods for |3.0 | | |
|inter-cultural research | | | |
|Pedagogical communication in | | | |
|inter-cultural environment |3.0 | | |
|Socialization of children from | | | |
|different ethnos and religions |3.0 | | |
|Elective courses (students | |Elective courses (students | |
|choose four courses) | |choose one course) | |
|Organization of the environment | | | |
|for inter-cultural pedagogical | |Health education |3.0 |
|interaction | |Prevention from violence in | |
|Inter-cultural interaction and | |family and at school |3.0 |
|religions | |Civil education |3.0 |
|Legislation foundations of the | |Applied research in | |
|inter-cultural education | |multi-ethnic environment |3.0 |
|Educational theatre in | |Intercultural training of | |
|multi-cultural environment | |children with special |3.0 |
|Intercultural communications | |educational needs | |
|Social pedagogical profile of | |Speech performing actions of |3.0 |
|Roma family | |children in multicultural | |
|Roma folklore in the education | |environment | |
|in literature | | | |
|Social work with ethno-cultural | | | |
|communities | | | |
|Roma culture and identity | | | |
|Language education in | | | |
|multicultural environment | | | |
| |TOTAL | |TOTAL |
| |30 | |30 |
|TOTAL 1 year: 60 credits |
SHORT INFORMATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSEES The compulsory courses: PHILOSOPHY OF THE INTER-CULTURAL EDUCATION ECTS credits: 3.0
Weekly workload:2 l + 1 s + 0 e
Form of Assessment: exam
Type of exam: written
Semester: ?
Department: "Pre-school and primary school pedagogy", Faculty of Pedagogy
Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Anastasia Pashova PhD, Department "Pre-school and
primary school pedagogy"
e-mail: asia_p@swu.bg Annotation: The proposed as compulsory discipline course "Philosophy
of the intercultural education" is looking for new sustainable forms of
development of intercultural competency of the students and acquirement of
new strategies for work in cultural diversity. It is the beginning of the
acquirement of one new pedagogy of the differences.
Contents of the study discipline: Education as typological
characteristics of culture. "Contract" and "Subordinance" in the cultural
models. Threat to society. Faces of society. Ambition but society as task.
Attributes of society. Existence with society. Semiotic plan. Existential
plan.