I welcome you to the Department of Early Childhood Education of the academic year 2020-2021. The Department with all its memebers has a dynamic development path that we co-shape with the main goal of student-centered learning.
As part of your studies, you will participate in an Undergraduate Program with four courses, and as graduates you will have the opportunity to study in two Postgraduate Programs and continue, if you wish, in doctoral studies. In addition to the Curriculum, you can participate in training activities, summer and winter schools, research programs, conferences, international mobility partnerships and internships. Overall, you are integrated and shaped into a becoming the modern educator who is capable of both research and teaching.
The sciences of Education and Kindergarten school are important fields for childrens’ education and the future of the country. We hope for a fruitful interaction in the learning community so that through the participation in the activities of the Department, you, the future pre-primary teachers, feel able to act for your noble ideals in theory and in practice.
Curricula are subject to a dynamic review process. We are waiting for your suggestions, as we believe that the joy of achieving your own efforts is a collective process that concerns, without any exception all members of the Department including students, graduates of all categories, faculty, special laboratory teaching staff (E.DI.P. And Ε.Ε.P.) administrative and special technical laboratory staff (Ε.Τ.Ε.P.).
I wish you a Happy Academic Year and a beautiful journey of knowledge and life.
The Head of the Department
Katerina Plakitsi
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Katerina Plakitsi is a Professor of Science Education and President of the Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education of the University of Ioannina.
She is President of the International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (https://www.iscar.org/, http://iscar2019.conf.uoi.gr) and founding member of the ISCAR – STEM thematic unit. She has studied Physics and Pedagogy with main research interests: concepts and theories of Science Education, informal forms of education in science education activities for the environment and sustainable development.
She has authored Science Education Curricula, textbooks, books on science education, articles in international journals and publishes the magazine Science Education: Research and Practice. She is scientifically responsible for European programs (www.epoque-project.eu, http://bdfprojects.wixsite.com/mindset, Capacity Building for higher Education Europe – Asia/21st Cenrury Teaching skills), in Interreg Cross-border Cooperation Programs (Greece-Albania: SOLIS) and has founded the international research team @formal and informal science education (@fise group).
She is the Director of the Laboratory of the Department of Early Childhood Education for Science Education and Sustainability Education. She is the Director of the Interdepartmental Program of Postgraduate Studies entitled: Environmental Sciences and Education for Sustainability, in collaboration with the following Departments of the University of Ioannina: a) Department of Early Childhood Education (accelerated Department), b) Faulty of Medicine and c) Department of Biological Applications & Technology.
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