Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education - Virtual Modality

• Ethically, politically, and socially committed to guaranteeing the rights of children in Colombia.
• Knowledge builders in the field of pedagogy and didactics, with a critical and proactive attitude towards the conceptual frameworks that underpin early childhood education.
• Political subjects who participate in the construction, implementation, and monitoring of educational programs and comprehensive care projects that seek to materialize conditions in the lives of children that ensure their integral development.
• Leaders of pedagogical processes that allow children to take on challenges that promote their capacities, experiences, and knowledge according to their developmental stages, characteristics, interests, conditions, and contexts.
• Recognizers of children as subjects of rights, unique, diverse, social, and citizen beings.
• Generators of pedagogical environments conducive to integral development, where play, art, literature, and exploration of the environment have a privileged place.
• Teachers who are sensitive and willing to contribute to the construction of emotional relationships between children and adults to promote trust, security, autonomy, and self-determination.
• Promoters of pedagogical experiences in which children develop their ability to communicate, express, and transmit their ideas, experiences, and thoughts.
• Innovators in educational practices carried out with children and their families. Reflective about their pedagogical work in order to strengthen their actions and qualify the educational processes they lead.
• Critical readers of the contexts in which the lives of children and their families unfold, to respond promptly and appropriately to their needs, interests, and capacities.

General Information

Applicant Profile

• Academic or pedagogical high school graduates.
• Superior Normalistas (teachers from teacher training schools).
• Technical workers with some emphasis in education.
• Technologists in education.
• Homologants from other education careers.
• All those who feel interest and motivation towards pedagogical work and advocate for the well-being and education of children.

Occupational Profile

Graduates of the Early Childhood Education program
can work in different fields to:

• Work in governmental or non-governmental institutions dedicated to the study, analysis, design, and execution of educational policies for children.
• Lead and dynamize pedagogical and research projects for the improvement of educational quality for children.
• Develop educational actions that favor the living conditions of children in the different environments in which they grow and develop.
• Build open and flexible curricula for inclusive and diverse educational processes for children.
• Advise and manage educational and pedagogical programs in educational institutions.

Why study with us?

• We are pioneers in Colombia in working for inclusion, for 40 years.
• Our program responds to national requirements, which are at the forefront of Early Childhood Education training.
• The study of early childhood educational processes is approached from a rigorous scientific analysis in recognized entities with a great impact on society.
• In our classes, we work by approaching real educational situations, considering them as experiences conducive to general educational factors and conditions.
• We train professional educators capable of leading educational processes within the framework of inclusion and diversity.
• Through different exercises, we seek for our students to build their knowledge based on the relationship between theory, practice, and research as fundamental axes of their training and professional development process.

Program Objective

To be able to understand integral development as a process of permanent changes, which do not occur linearly or homogeneously for all children. It understands that development is a holistic process that cannot be partially divided into areas or dimensions, as it is directly influenced by the interactions that occur with oneself, with others, and the environment, and that are susceptible to action and improvement within a framework of respect for differences and guarantee of rights.

Curriculum

Semester 1