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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. WHAT IS DIAK?. High quality , innovative degree programmes of education and training in: Diaconia Nursing Sign language interpreting Social services Youth work From 2011: Community interpreting. WHAT IS DIAK?.
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WHAT IS DIAK? • Highquality, innovativedegreeprogrammes of education and training in: • Diaconia • Nursing • Signlanguageinterpreting • Social services • Youthwork • From 2011: Communityinterpreting Raili Suojoki
WHAT IS DIAK? • Diakvaluesarebased on Christianity, therefore, weemphasise the humandignity of each person. • Diak is committed to social justice, solidarity and the empowerment of people. • Weaim to trainpeople to influence social change, work for a multiculturalsociety and fight social exclusion. Raili Suojoki
WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR DIAK? • Ourchallengesare the challenges of the contemporarysociety: • Empowerment of the mostvulnerable • Multiculturalsocietywhereeverybodycanfeelaccepted • Enforcement of the social justice • Empowerment of the developingregions, home and abroad • Globalequalitybetweenhumans Raili Suojoki
WHAT IS DIAK? • Four units and seven campuses nation-wide: • Diak South (Helsinki, Järvenpää, Kauniainen), • Diak East (Pieksämäki), • Diak North (Oulu), • Diak West (Pori, Turku) FINLAND Oulu Pieksämäki Pori Turku Järvenpää Helsinki Kauniainen Raili Suojoki
OUR MEANS OF MAKING THE CHANGE • Education • Highqualitytraining of the professionals in the fields of social services and nursing • Trainer and developer for the EvangelicalLutheran Church of Finland • International mobility of students, teachers and stafflinked to educationAsia, Africa and Europe • Research and Development • Long-standingpartnershipswithuniversities and NGO’sin Europe and developingcountries • International network in the research of Diaconia • Threeresearchprogrammes: Welfarestate, Civilsociety and Church Raili Suojoki
EDUCATION: FINNISH SYSTEM • HEI systemconsists of universities and universities of appliedsciences (UAS) • Bologna process: two-cycledegreesystemwith bachelor and masterdegrees, ECTS, Diplomasupplement, national accreditationsystem • UAS degreestudiesgive a highereducationqualification and practicalprofessionalskills. Theycomprisecore and professionalstudies, electivestudies and a finalproject. Alldegreestudiesincludepracticalon-the-joblearning. • Thereare no tuitionfees in degreeeducation, and the Finnishstudentscanapply for financialaid. • BA studies is generally 210−240 studypoints (ECTS), whichmeans 3.5 - 4 years of full-timestudy. • The requirement for MA studies in UAS is a Bachelors' level UAS degree and at leastthreeyears of workexperience. The UAS MA, which is 60-90 studypoints and takes 1.5-2 years, is equivalent to a universityMaster's in the labour market. Raili Suojoki
EDUCATION: DEGREE PROGRAMMES Diak South Helsinki: Social Services and Nursing Järvenpää: Social Services, Social Services taught in English Kauniainen: Social Services Diak East Pieksämäki: Social Services and Nursing Diak North Oulu: Social Services and Nursing Diak West Pori: Social Services and Nursing Turku: SignLanguageInterpretation New in 2011, Diak South and Diak West: Bachelor degreeprogramme in CommunityInterpreting Total 3000 students, 300 staff FINLAND Oulu Pieksämäki Pori Turku Järvenpää Helsinki Kauniainen Raili Suojoki
EDUCATION: INNOVATIVE EDUCATOR • Diak is the largesttrainer in the social sector in Finland. • Pedagogicalprinciplesinclude an openapproach to learning, the use of flexiblelearningenvironments and interculturalinteraction • Diak is active in creatinginnovativecontexts for learning, whereeducation, research and regionaldevelopmentworkcanbecombined • Phenomena-basedcurriculum Raili Suojoki
BA DEGREE PROGRAMME IN SOCIAL SERVICES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH (DSS) • Diakoffers a BA Programme in Social Services taught in English (DSS). • The programme is designed to beopen to Finnish and international studentsincludingadultstudents. • Focus on communitydevelopmentwork, option in diaconia • Major challengesare the growth of social exclusion, the need to tacklediscrimination and racism and to buildsociety in diversity. • European and international perspective • Programmeaims for the development of socially and economicallysustainablecommunities. Raili Suojoki
EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS • Several Erasmus partners (Student, teachers and staff, alsoplacements) • Active in NordDiakoninetwork • 3 North-South-Southprojects (involvedcountries f. ex. Swaziland, Botswana, Nepal, Vietnam) • Interdiac • FIRST CooperationnetworkswithRussia • HENCCA, HigherEducationNetwork for Civic and CulturalActivities Raili Suojoki
TO CARE, TO DARE, TO SHARE! Kuva-alue (optionaalinen) Raili Suojoki