University of Ljubljana Faculty of Education

 The basic goal of the professional bachelor study programme Preschool education is to qualify students for quality educational work with young children – preschool children and children in the first grade of nine year primary school (The Primary School Act, 1996) and for cooperation with parents, co-workers and other professionals. In the process of education, students of preschool education become familiar with various concepts of childhood and education, and gain fundamental theoretical and practical knowledge from individual areas of kindergarten operation (The Kindergarten Curriculum, 1999). Graduates of the programme must know how to communicate with children and adults, and must be capable of planning, executing and critically analysing educational work. The elective subjects of the programme encourage students to gain a more in-depth training in those areas of work in kindergartens for which they have a special interest and ability. An important goal of study is the acquisition of the fundamental and broadly transferable knowledge that will allow graduates, in the process of lifelong learning, to themselves seek out sources and ways of acquiring the specific knowledge and skills that they will need in work.

The basic goal of the academic bachelor study programme Art Pedagogy is to qualify students to execute a quality educational programme for pupils on both the class level and subject level at primary and secondary school (The Primary and Secondary School Act) in cooperation with a team of teachers, professional workers and parents. While attending the obligatory subjects of this programme students become familiar with and understand the specifics of the artistic development of the individual and how to nurture this development. They gain theoretical and practical knowledge from the design fields of drawing, painting, graphics, sculpture, architectural design and visual communication for arts activities in the primary and secondary school (for the curriculum of the primary and secondary school). In the elective subjects of the programme the students gain a deeper knowledge in their interest areas.

The academic bachelor study programme Primary teacher education is designed taking into account the fundamental principles of the European higher education sphere, as formed in the Bologna process. Therefore, the completion of the first cycle enables entry both to work (employment) and to further study. This programme is the first cycle programme and therefore does not yet enable the independent undertaking of professional work in education. The fundamental goal of this study programme is to empower students for the continuation and completion of study on the second level, or to enable students to seek employment after the first level by providing a broadly based pedagogical education. The broad palette of study areas and the additional depth of knowledge provided by elective subjects will enable graduates of the first level to be employed and to work independently in other social vocations and in liberal professions.

 The basic goal of the academic bachelor programme Social pedagogy is to qualify students for quality preventive, developmental, compensational, educational and socially inclusive social pedagogical work with individuals, groups and communities in the area of supporting and helping people to master their lives in various life periods and situations. The study goals include achieving an ability to work in various institutional and informal environments in which social pedagogy operates. The study programme conveys the basic theoretical knowledge, along with the competences required for both practical work and research work in the area of social pedagogy. The general goal of the study is to offer a qualification for the theoretically reflective analysis of social phenomenon, institutions and professional work in the context of the life sphere of the individual, with an emphasis on intercultural and anti-discriminatory work. An important goal is the acquisition of the basic and broadly transferable knowledge that will enable graduates, in the process of lifelong learning, to continue to seek out sources and ways of gaining the specific knowledge and skills required in their work on their own.

The basic goal of the academic bachelor study programme Special and rehabilitation pedagogy is to qualify students for the quality execution of the continuum of programmes of inclusive educational and rehabilitation work with people with special needs in various organisational forms, institutional and informal environments and in all life periods. In the process of education, students of special and rehabilitation pedagogy will acquire: the basic theoretical knowledge and understanding of the fields of fundamental and specialist pedagogical study and of the rehabilitation of people with special needs,

• the competences required for practical operation in the area of the verification and assessment of special needs, as well as of the planning, execution and evaluating of programmes implemented for these people,
• the competences required for communication and team work with professional school workers and with the parents or guardians of people with special needs,
• additional knowledge in the selected areas (facilitated by the selected subjects as well as the seminar and project work of students),
• the fundamental knowledge that will enable ongoing professional development in the process of lifelong learning.

The academic bachelor study programme Speech and language therapy is based on research in the field of humanities, social sciences, medical and natural sciences. Since the programme trains for different areas of work in the sectors of social activities, education, health care, social care, employment, etc., it is based on interdisciplinary research findings and achievements of various sciences, such as linguistics, electroacoustics, medicine, pedagogy, sociology, psychology, philosophy, etc... Speech and language therapy is a highly interdisciplinary science pertaining to humanities, medical and social science. The study of speech and language therapy and surd pedagogy trains experts for work on preventing, identifying, diagnosing and addressing the problems of human communication in order to understand the processes and functions associated with the perception and production of speech and language (verbal and / or non-verbal) regardless of the form of expression - in writing or orally, kinetic (sign language translation). The study programme trains employees to address the provision of hearing aids and to carry out the necessary remedy work in relation to listening and speaking.

Graduates of the academic bachelor study programme Two-subject teacher gain:

• the fundamental professional knowledge from two subject areas that is important for education in each subject area,
• specialist didactic knowledge from the two selected subject areas of education together with practical pedagogical training,
• the fundamental professional knowledge from the areas of pedagogy, psychology, philosophy and sociology that is important for working in education.

The programme enables the continuation of study in the 2nd Bologna cycle, and with this the gaining of a qualification for independent work in institutions in the field of education in both of the selected subject areas.