Emphasis

- Basic Education
- Administration of Education
- Technology of Education
- Support of People with Special Needs
- Supervision and Pedagogical Coordination

Mission

The Master of Arts in Education is a further elaboration and professional development, for a better approach to different training situations, namely the basic education, the technology of education, the administration of education, the supervision and pedagogical intervention and the accompaniment of people with special educational needs. The training offered by this Master is theoretical, methodological and practical, it aims at adopting the professional competencies by developing the ability of students to design, organize, manage and control training activities in different school contexts. It deepens the engineering of training and focuses on knowledge, the questioning of practices of trainers and adaptation approaches to cope with the educational changes and to anticipate developments in education.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Graduates will demonstrate all the skills necessary to pursue a doctoral course and excel in research.
2. Graduates will become specialized teachers and trainers equipped with a broad training, versatile and coherent, which will allow them to work in an environment increasingly diversified and pluralistic.
3. Graduates will become heads of schools, executive directors, quality accreditors prepared to address the changes achieved in the world of education and confront the various modes of governance of school management at the forefront of professional and ethical knowledge.
4. Graduates will become professional in educational technology and designers, being equipped with models and effective tools to implement computerized teaching techniques and multimedia projects.
5. Graduates will become teachers and trainers with the essential capacity to integrate into teaching and coaching the professional practices that meet special needs education.
6. Graduates will become specialized coordinators in the use of methods and practices of coordination, supervision and pedagogical intervention in order to train and support teachers and organize courses at schools.

Program Outcomes

a. Define useful knowledge and basic concepts in methodology of research in human sciences and to devise a working method that empowers the Master’s students to combine the epistemological, ethical, technological and statistical concepts used in the context of research, in order to produce a pre-project.
b. Correlate laws, decrees, and the basic texts from the Lebanese educational system, to develop skills in educational legislation.
c. Analyze the components of a curriculum and conceptions renewed at that level, according to the changes and transformation operated on the teaching programs, and plan an educational policy.
d. Identify administrative, economic, educational and humanitarian management styles to reflect in professional practices observed or experienced within the school context.
e. Compare different international approaches to comparative education and interpret the data offered by innovative educational issues and their impact on the world of education.
f. Recognize the data of linguistics as applied to teaching and the theories of learning that will be consolidating the development of innovative teaching/learning situations for the contents to learn.
g. Identify concepts, conceptual, operational and economic models, tools for a better understanding of the field of educational management, and for interpreting the data that will accompany the acceleration of change in education.
h. Assess the performance of the educational establishment in light of the criteria of quality in order to improve the establishment educative work.
i. Identify philosophical and sociological theories on contemporary issue of knowledge as well as theories of communication and transmission means of information.
j. Examine the modes of an integrated training of different forms of e-learning and online educational resources, as well as concrete examples in the field of current research in ICT based on a particular theme.
k. Describe the relationship that exists among psychomotor activities of people with special needs, in order to conceive teaching and learning situations for the contents to be learned and to integrate these various professional practices in the educative context.
l. Recognize the different ways and forms of special needs educational problems in their physical impairments, psychological effects and learning disabilities.
m. Analyze supervisory activities in subjects of educational coordination and identify the accompaniment process at the pedagogical, relational and didactic level, and their implementation in educational contexts, among teachers.
n. Correlate terms of career guidance and design appropriate communication situations to manage and facilitate the exchange among partners in schools.
o. Prepare an educational project or a master thesis in education.