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
Professor