Study structure
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The study program
The basic idea of this Master's program is to prepare students for a qualified position at vocational schools and in institutions of further education and training by combining theoretical, (school) pedagogical and (subject) didactical knowledge. This knowledge can be related to each other in an internship in the third semester. The internship semester enables students to become active first as participating observers and then, building on this, to gain initial experience in teaching social pedagogical content as lecturers.
In accordance with the program, the courses offered are, on the one hand, exclusively for students of the Master's program and, on the other hand, linked to other courses, both internal and external to the department. Thus, seminars are offered together with the departmental Master's program "Diversity - Research - Social Work". Students will also attend modules from other institutes and departments within the educational and social science core curriculum, which is the central building block of all teacher:in-service training programs at the University of Kassel. Building on a broad theoretical qualification in the first university degree successfully completed by the students, this scientific knowledge is to be deepened and specified in the master's program.
Faculty in the study program
The Institute of Social Work is responsible for the Master's program, so that many of the lecturers and researchers here are active in the Master's program "Social Pedagogy in Training, Further and Continuing Education" and offer seminars depending on the research and teaching focus. In addition, with the claim of linking theory and practice, lecturers with special expertise from the professional practice fields of vocational schools as well as further, continuing and adult education are engaged.
In seminars and lectures, which are offered interdisciplinary in the core studies of social and educational sciences, there are representatives from a variety of relevant disciplines, such as (developmental) psychology, vocational education or school pedagogy.