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Degree graduates with an interest in the early childhood sector have an opportunity to enhance their knowledge in research and leadership with this postgraduate diploma that also serves as a pathway to our Masters’ qualifications.
Original price was: $4,000.00.$2,500.00Current price is: $2,500.00.
This course includes
Hours of videos
9 months, 3 weeks
Units & Quizzes
7
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
You'll also gain hands-on work experience in a range of settings, graduating with expertise in early-childhood learning built on a strong sense of social justice.
Gain insight into the early years by studying these fascinating areas:
- child development
- teaching practice that includes Aboriginal perspectives
- education and curriculum studies focused on childhood and relationships
- family and community contexts
- advocacy and activism in early-childhood settings
- history and philosophy of early childhood
- ethical early-childhood professional practice.
PGCert Option
An applicant can finish his/her course with 20-30 ECTS credits as well and apply for certification from OpenCoursa and educational partner.
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Initiate teaching and learning practices that foster learner engagement in complex contexts and foreground Aboriginal standpoints in early childhood education.
- Critically review on different ways of knowing, being, and doing founded on the view of children and families as capable contributors to conceptual and pedagogical decision-making in learning and teaching.
- Design teaching practices that reflect an ability to contextualise, question, resist, rethink, and act towards equity and the public good.
- Exhibit a broad and coherent body of knowledge of early childhood pedagogy, curriculum and assessment in relation to the changing nature of education in a rapidly-evolving global context.
- Appraise, adapt, and exemplify a range of oral and written communication techniques to engage and connect with learners, their parents/carers and the wider community.
- Create learning opportunities that embrace a rich and varied curriculum, ensuring that learning and teaching approaches are based on sound ethical principles and foster reciprocal relationships in early childhood settings.
- 40 ECTS Credits
- Master in Education Development
- Master in Early Education
- Master in Education Contend Development
- OpenCoursa
An applicant with relevant experience in the education sector up to 3-5 years can apply for credits transfer or apply a post-graduate diploma based on assessment.
OpenCoursa and its partner value the professional experience and practices of teachers and its contribution towards development. Â Please click this RPL.
Childcare job openings are expecting massive growth, with the number of qualified early-childhood teachers required at long-day-care centres to double in 2020.
Thanks to the essential experience you’ll get from teaching early-childhood settings during your placement, you’ll be work-ready when you graduate.
With an approved early-childhood teacher qualification, our graduates can find employment in:
- public or private kindergartens (preschool)
- long-day-care centres
- early-childhood centres in anywhere in the world
Course Currilcum
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- The Young Child: Childhood in the Early Years 1 month, 1 week
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- Children and Families in Early Childhood Education 1 month, 1 week
- The Authentic Leader 1 month, 1 week
- Research Methods in Early Childhood Education 1 month, 1 week
- The Effective Early Childhood Manager 1 month, 1 week
