The Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education program trains professionals who develop skills based on solid disciplinary and pedagogical knowledge, which allow them to progressively learn to define educational strategies that translate into a challenging pedagogical practice for boys and girls according to their age and institutional context.
All this is made easier by UC Pedagogies training model, which focuses pedagogical performance in the field as the center of the training process, progressively developing generative practices that are part of the skills that our graduation profile considers.
Academic degree Bachelor's Degree in Education
Job title Kindergarden educator
Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education UC trains educators who are committed and responsible for the development of quality learning for children, being agents of change in the educational communities where they work, giving meaning and significance to their professional practice with an interdisciplinary approach of his teaching practice.
Find out how interdisciplinary professional training is developed, in proximity and contact with different educational contexts through progressive practices from the first year.
Pamela Rodríguez, Head of the Early Childhood Education Pedagogy degree.
The Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education UC program has a duration of 8 semesters, granting the degree of Bachelor of Education and the professional title of Educator or Early Childhood Educator.
The curriculum offers a variety of educational pathways that allow students to choose between two majors: Initial Education and Early Education, and three minors: Interculturality, Child Expression and Educational Resources and Play.
Those who take our curriculum have access to a wide range of activities that the Faculty and University provideaccording to the educational project of university life, considering volunteer instances, personal development courses, sports, artistic and cultural activities as well as internships abroad.
To graduate from the Early Childhood Education degree and obtain the title of educator or nursery school educator, students must:
The nursery school educator graduated from the UC Faculty of Education, is a professional capable of strengthening learning and the integral development of children, assuming commitments and responsibilities that fundamentally imply:
The educators graduated from our house of studies work leading pedagogical teams from the nursery to the transition or kindergarten level. They work both in traditional educational centers or in unconventional modalities, pedagogical innovation projects, in hospital schools, community educational projects and any institution that develops pedagogy for children under 6 years of age.
In addition, they may hold positions in public, private, municipal or other institutions that require specific pedagogical training at this educational level and participate in multi-professional teams or in institutions dedicated to research. They may also advise, design and develop programs or material resources that support the learning and comprehensive development of children.
Our graduates work in various contexts, assuming their social responsibility for the quality of early childhood education, developing innovative proposals in response to the needs of children in today's society.
"What I liked the most about UC is the closeness that the professors have had, from the head of the course to the professor with the students, they are very flexible and understanding".
Florencia Griffiths
Last year student of Early Childhood Education Pedagogy
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