Degree in Early Childhood Education
New requirement for 2020-21 academic year: personal aptitude test for admissions to Early Childhood and Primary Education degree courses
The Degree in Early Childhood Education is one of the undergraduate degrees established by Royal Decree 1393/2007 of 29 October, Chapter III, Article 12.9, that enable one to perform a regulated profession in Spain. The conditions that must be met are laid out in the Resolution, of 17 December 2007, of the State Secretary for Universities and Research and in Order ECI/3854/2007, of 27 December, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that allow for the profession of Early Childhood Education Teacher to be practiced.
The main aim of the programme is to train students as early childhood teachers, working on the acquisition of a set of skills including:
Personal-relationship skills that include the ability to promote social harmony and pacific conflict resolution; developing strategies for collaborative work that develops respect for different perspectives and for diversity; developing a committed attitude towards the profession, and the ability to promote educational values that defend gender equality and encourage the culture of peace.
Academic-disciplinary skills such as the ability to analyse the educational implications of information and communication technology; analysing and developing the goals, syllabus content and assessment criteria for early childhood education, and knowing the evolutionary development and requirements of children in early childhood.
Professional skills linked to the ability to cover language learning in multicultural and multilingual contexts, as well as the ability to understand, speak and write in English; the ability to create, interpret and appreciate arts and technologies associated to non-verbal communication tools; the ability to design, organise and assess learning contexts in line with childhood diversity, gender equality and respect for human rights, and the ability to reflect on and research educational practice in an attempt to improve teaching and promote innovative projects.
Credit Summary
Core Training | Mandatory | Elective Subjects | External Practicum | Final Degree Project | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
102 | 72 | 12 | 48 | 6 | 240 |
Subjects
- First-year subjects
- Second-year subjects
- Third-year subjects
- Fourth-year subjects
- Elective subjects
- Pre-requisites
- Subjects in English
- All
Name | Type | Credits |
Teaching
language |
Period |
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22000 - Contemporary Educational Thinking and Contexts | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22001 - Teaching Bases and Curricular Design | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22002 - Catalan Language and its Teaching | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22003 - Cognitive and Language Development in Early Childhood | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22004 - Foundations of Musical Education: Vocal, Auditory and Rhythmical | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22005 - Sociology, Living in Harmony and Education | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22006 - Educational Organisation and Management | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22007 - Education Models in Early Childhood | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22008 - Language in the Nursery Classroom: from Pleasure in Reading to the Game of | Mandatory | 6,0 | Spanish | 2nd semester |
Name | Type | Credits |
Teaching
language |
Period |
---|---|---|---|---|
22009 - Educational Intervention Strategies in Early Childhood I | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22010 - Inclusive Education | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22011 - Psychology of Education | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan, Spanish | 1st semester |
22012 - Observation and Documentation | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22013 - Artistic and Aesthetic Education. Foundations of Visual Art and Craft | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22014 - Psychomotor Development in Early Childhood | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22015 - Development and Socio-Emotional Education in Early Childhood | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22016 - Language Skills for Nursery Education | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22017 - Corporal and Musical Education of Teachers | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22018 - Stage Representation in Nursery School | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
Name | Type | Credits |
Teaching
language |
Period |
---|---|---|---|---|
22019 - Development Disorders | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22020 - Educational Intervention Strategies in Early Childhood II | Core Training | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22021 - Mathematical Thought and its Teaching | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22022 - Natural Science and Teaching | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22023 - Educational Reflection and Innovation | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22024 - Practicum I (0-3) | External Placements | 24,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
Name | Type | Credits |
Teaching
language |
Period |
---|---|---|---|---|
22025 - Technological Means and Resources in the teaching-Learning Process in Early | Core Training | 6,0 | Spanish | 1st semester |
22026 - Catalan Universal Literature for Nursery Education | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22027 - Spanish Language. Communication Strategies | Core Training | 6,0 | Spanish | 1st semester |
22028 - Family and School | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22029 - Artistic Projects in Early Childhood | Mandatory | 6,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22030 - Practicum II (3-6) | External Placements | 24,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22031 - Final Degree Project | Final Degree Project | 6,0 | 2nd semester |
Name | Type | Credits |
Teaching
language |
Period |
---|---|---|---|---|
22036 - Human Science and Teaching | Elective | 3,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22037 - Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication in Early Childhood Education | Elective | 3,0 | Spanish | 1st semester |
22038 - Teaching the Catholic Religion | Elective | 3,0 | Catalan | 1st semester |
22032 - Language Learning in Multilingual Contexts | Elective | 3,0 | Catalan | 2nd semester |
22033 - English Language: Formal and Communication Aspects | Elective | 3,0 | English | 2nd semester |
22035 - English Language and Culture | Elective | 3,0 | English | 2nd semester |
22034 - Children's Language and Literature in English | Elective | 3,0 |
- 22024
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Practicum I (0-3)
Registration Requirements
- Must have passed 91,2 set of courses made up of all 1st and 2nd year mandatory subjects, basic education classes, and outside internships credits
- 22030
-
Practicum II (3-6)
Registration Requirements
- Must have passed 91,2 set of courses made up of all 1st and 2nd year mandatory subjects, basic education classes, and outside internships credits
- 22031
-
Final Degree Project
Registration Requirements
- Must have passed 150 set of subjects made up of all core training subjects, all elective subjects, all external placements subjects, all mandatory subjects credits
- Must have passed 60 set of courses made up of all 1st and 2nd year basic education classes credits
Name | Type | Academic Year | Credits | Language | Period |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
22033 - English Language: Formal and Communication Aspects | Elective
(Elective subjects)
|
Elective subjects | 3,0 | English | 2nd semester |
22035 - English Language and Culture | Elective
(Elective subjects)
|
Elective subjects | 3,0 | English | 2nd semester |
Calendar, specified by time groups
Timetable group | Schedule | Examinations |
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Early Childhood Education first year group 01 morning | schedule | examinations |
Early Childhood Education first year group 02 evening | schedule | examinations |
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Early Childhood Education second year group 01 morning | schedule | examinations |
Early Childhood Education second year group 01 evening | schedule | examinations |
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Early Childhood Education third year group 01 | schedule | examinations |
Early Childhood Education third year group 02 | schedule | examinations |
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Early Childhood Education fourth year group 01 morning | schedule | examinations |
Early Childhood Education fourth year group 01 evening | schedule | examinations |