Pedagogist specialising in educational-cultural, socio-educational, social-care infrastructures
This professional can carry out functions related to:
- educational counseling to individuals, organisations and institutions, particularly public and private educational services, families;
- design of educational, socio-educational and cultural interventions and services aimed at satisfying local needs and conceived for specific target groups;
- Organisation and management of educational services within social cooperatives, cultural promotion and dissemination institutions;
- Analysis of training needs and development of educational intervention programmes together with other providers of social welfare and care services;
- Coordination of work groups using skills that help to promote a relational climate favouring well-being, problem solving, and mediation within an organisation;
- innovation of both public and private socio-educational and social welfare services
Professional pedagogists have both hard/technical and soft skills: a full mastery of pedagogical-teaching disciplines, in-depth knowledge of the different aspects of educational planning (needs analysis, definition of goals and objectives, evaluation of human, instrumental and structural resources, intervention, verification and evaluation methodologies), methods for monitoring and evaluating the outcomes and social impact of intervention projects and programmes, as well as an adequate mastery of educational research methodology at a theoretical, historical, empirical and experimental level.
Develops management and coordination skills and possesses specific theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in pedagogical and educational sciences to be applied in different formal, non-formal, and informal educational contexts with a focus also on educational-cultural infrastructure services.
This professional will be able to play leading roles in a diverse range of services and units, within the sectors of the educational system (social, welfare, care, cultural, etc.), as well as in relation to the particular target groups to which the training intervention is aimed (young children, teenagers and young adults, families, people with disabilty, vulnerable people who are at risk of social exclusion, ...). According to current legislation, in fact, pedagogists can work in social-educational and social-welfare services and units, with people of all ages, in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts; in schools as well as in cultural, judiciary, environmental, integration, social-welfare bodies, limited to social-educational aspects; supporting parenting and families. People holding this degree can, in fact, apply for the following job positions, both in Italy and abroad:
- manager of socio-educational and personal care services;
- designer and coordinator of educational and socio-educational services,
- design of integrated and local educational systems,
- pedagogical consultant,
- educational and curricular planning expert,
- vocational education and school teacher
last update: 20-Jan-2024