- Faculty of Education
- Bellaterra Campus
- Duration: 4 courses - 240 credits
- Places: 130
- Admission mark: 9,216
- Price per credit: 17.69 euros
- Language: Catalan and Spanish
- Academic Calendar
- Learning mode: Classroom-based learning
Do you like teaching and constantly want to learn new things? Are you a person motivated by working with great social responsibility? Intuitive, creative, flexible, patient, responsible and with the ability of persuasion? If the answer is yes and you have a good grasp of Catalan, and also Spanish, we invite you to enrol in the UAB's Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education.
You will learn to plan, develop and evaluate education activities aimed at children aged zero to six. You can choose to enrol in the Specialisation in Specific Educational Needs, in the Specialisation in Performative Education in the Arts, or if you have certaini mastery of music, you can take the Specialisation in Musical Education. If you are not interested in a specialisation, you will have many optional subjects to choose from. You will begin participating in practicums starting in your first year and discover both the dynamics of nursery schools and kindergartens.
If you are interested in discovering other cultures, you will be able to choose from over 40 different European universities. The UAB also has practicum agreements with France, Germany, Great Britain and Latin America. In addition, a practicum agreement with the city council of Munich, Germany, has led to more than 30 students being hired indefinitely at some of the city's nursery schools.
Career options
Teachers in Early Childhood Education have responsibilities in different areas: teaching each pupil, the group, the school, the family, the community and teaching administration. The work areas are:
- Teaching in nurseries and preschool centres with children aged 0 to 3 and 3 to 6 years.
- Services and programmes for early childhood aimed at providing support for the family, such as mother and child programmes
- Leisure and cultural services, such as playschools and children’s libraries.
- Production of educational materials.
- Centres for children and youth in state care.
- Education services in support of schools.
- Self-employment in complementary education services.
Mobility programmes
Exchange Program with European universities (Erasmus+): France, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Portugal, and Poland.
Professional training
There are 44 compulsory work placement credits you must complete in preschools. Work placements can be begun in your first year.
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