This two-year course offers educational contents and activities that complete the cultural, scientific and professional profile of the expert in human sciences, pedagogy and education, by improving their skills in a thematic sense, methodological and planning way in the educational and educational fields qualifying him/her as a pedagogist.

The specific objectives of this course develop in a disciplinary and interdisciplinary sense the qualifying educational objectives of the degree path, offering diverse proposals for the personalization of individual study plans in compliance with the outgoing professional profiles. It is ensured a wide range of assessment tests aimed at identifying the plurality of skills and enhancing specific features and personal talents, also under a self-assessment perspective.

The study course aimed at achieving the Master's Degree in Pedagogical Sciences (Code LM85) has a duration of two years and aims to allow the completion and enhancement of the educational training acquired in the three-year degree courses.

The educational objective is the achievement of possible professional outcomes, the continuation of studies and the research:

• deepened knowledge and well-structured skills in the disciplines included in the field of study of educational sciences, with particular reference to the methodological-didactic and educational research domains;
• Ability to grasp the connection between the knowledge made available by the education sciences and those of other domains of knowledge such as that of the historical, legal, sociological and psychological disciplines;
• Ability to analyze training problems, within secure epistemological frameworks;
• Ability to design and evaluate training interventions, even complex ones, in relation to the training needs of groups, communities and territories, based on a scientifically based reading of the context;
• Ability to analyze educational and training problems using empirical and experimental research methods;
• Know in depth the problems, the models and the techniques of planning, monitoring and evaluation;
• Know the issues of continuing education in relation to the needs of the learning society;
• Understand the potential social impact of training interventions;
• Know the problems of pedagogy within organizations, connecting intervention models and organizational theories;
• Good command of information and communication technologies, also in relation to the possibility that they allow to support learning processes.

The conclusion of the Master’s degree course allows to perform roles for which tasks are expected involving a good humanistic culture and high project and management responsibility in the educational and education sectors. The educationalist is an obligatory figure of reference in the multifunctional teams operating both at the public level (school, educational and multi-functional training services) and at the private level, a figure envisaged in the competitions and the public employment staff in the sectors of education, training and education.

The acquired competences contribute to the construction of the profile of the teacher of upper secondary school in the philosophical, psychological, pedagogical-educational and historical disciplines, as well as to further competition courses within the school management and in the service centres for education. The excellent methodological basis offered by the course also allows students to undertake courses aimed at scientific research in universities, particularly in research doctorates, or in other territorial centres in charge of educational research.

Further professional opportunities can be found in school and educational publishing, in the management of educational services in libraries or museums, in the planning and management of professional training courses for the updating and continuous education of teachers.

The course trains for the professions of:

• Professors of literary, artistic, historical, philosophical, pedagogical and psychological sciences;
• Experts in educational and curricular planning.

Students wishing to enrol in the degree course of Pedagogical Sciences must hold a three-year degree in Education and Training belonging to at least one of the following degree classes:

• L-18 of MD 509/1999
• L-19 of MD 270/2004

or in other degree classes, or of another qualification awarded abroad and recognized in Italy or of a four-year degree relative to the current regulations in force before MD 270/2004 provided that they have the following curricular requirements having collected at least 80 ECTS distributed for 40 ECTS on at least 2 sectors of Pedagogy and for the remaining 40 ECTS in the fields of Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and History and/or Law.

Students will be considered eligible for admission for a traineeship, upon the positive assessment of a minimum number of ECTS, with reference to:

• three-year degree courses: 100 ECTS out of 180
• master's degree courses: 50 ECTS out of 120
• one-year master degree course in Informatics: 20 ECTS out of 90

Students are required to reach specific agreements with the host company and communicate the following data in writing to International Study to the mail: info@internationalstudy.eu

1. Name of the Host company;
2. Agreed time frame of the traineeship;
3. Name and surname of the company tutor and relevant contact details (telephone and email);
4. Educational objectives of the traineeship, agreed with the company tutor.

Upon completion of the traineeship, students are required to submit to the competent office the following documentation:

• Application for recognition of the traineeship activities and relevant ECTS gained: download the form
• Certificate of Traineeship undertaken, to be sent on letter head, signed and stamped by the company tutor: download the form
• Brief report on the activity undertaken during the traineeship hours, signed and stamped by the company tutor.