ECTS - PWSZ im. Witelona w Legnicy

The Witelon University of Applied Sciences in Legnica - Field: Pedagogy
Pedagogy
Description of areas and specialisation
Pedagogical studies last six semesters and graduate with Bachelor of Art degree. During that period
students gain the knowledge and abilities to work with children, teenagers as well as with adults.
Pedagogy conducts 3 majors that are chosen on 3 rd semester : social work, childcare education with
health promoting, integrated preschool education with English language. Pedagogy graduates are
able to continue the education on Post Graduated studies at universities.
Social Work Specialization
The goal of the specialization – the social work, is to prepare graduates to fulfill the function of
social worker in social service system and social worker mainly in institutions subordinated to local
government (social welfare, family aid, welfare-educational institution) and in non-government
institutions. These social workers should possess indispensable skills to be able to identify social
needs of people, families and social groups, clumsy, uncap able to work, handicapped and sick
people. The selection of content and teaching forms is oriented to deliver graduates a combination
of practical skills connected with organizing of social need in individual and group dimension
which allows more fulfilled and independent existence in the society. It will also deliver graduates
skills connected with monitoring and conducting of counseling in social needs, carrying out
educational-rehabilitative and prophylactic tasks towards charges. The graduates will possess
indispensable knowledge within the scope of family and welfare law, labor law and social
insurance, functioning of social services and employment offices. They will also possess:
1) pedagogical skills- providing with counseling and applying of sociotherapy elements,
formulating of social diagnosis and aid plan, applying of methods and techniques of social
work;
2) social skills- establishing of contact, showing of kindly interest, warmth and empathy,
conducting of mediation and negotiation, appearing on public forum, activating of local
communities;
3) skills in applying law in social practice- using of law regulations, making of documents analysis
and proper interpretation of regulations:
4) skills in area of social animation- creative resolving of social problems, work organization,
leading groups of people, initializing and co-fulfilling of social programmers, creating of human
attitude and relations, gaining of funds for realization of social aid goals
5) skills in reflection about social reality
Specialisation of Childcare Education with Health Promoting
The goal of the Childcare education with health promoting specialisation is to prepare specialists
to take up an educational work (educational, caring, compensatory) with children and youth who are
permanently or currently devoided of parental care or who are coming from environments which are
educationally inefficient. Expending the competencies of a graduate with health promoting, we
ensure one the possibility of undertaking educational activities in the area of health education and
health promotion considering the, wards and their families as well as different social groups on
local and regional level. It is connected with broadening of earning and hiring possibilities. The
graduate with bachelor degree will give evidence of wide pedagogical competencies in the area of:
ECTS Course Catalogue 2010/2011
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